Spain‘s government has gotten into the business of regulating speech with predictably awful results. An early adopter of Blues Lives Matter-esque policies, Spain went full police state, passing a law making it a crime to show „disrespect“ to law enforcement officers. The predictable result? The arrest of someone for calling cops „slackers“ in a Facebook post.

Spain‘s government is either woefully unaware of the negative consequences of laws like this or, worse, likes the negative consequences.