The crisis and the measures that were taken

As we know on 2009/2010 the real state bubble that was happening in Spain ended blowing up which mean a serious lack of credibility for many banks and company and banks being more restrictive with money lending.

To save some of the banks a rescue was paid by the government. Although this was a reasonably right winded measure most of the people understood it as something necessary and kept on.

After this mass media started attacking the air traffic controllers after some strikes which affected to many people holidays and tourism. Another right winded measure that was still not felt as so bad. "After all they were hurting our holidays and the toursim!" thought many spanish.

Next attack was against the public workers salaries (by cutting them down). Against thanks to the mass media support this measure wasn't seen as so bad by the people. "Public workers? Bah! They are lazy guys doing nothing but talking and taking coffee, they deserve that!" was the common though.

Meanwhile unemployment was rising. Some EREs (company reestructurations to fire employees) happened and eventually a new law making firing easier (based on the lack of benefit of a company) was passed. There was also little concern as most of the public workers didn't support normal workers (after what happened with them) and most workers didn't go to the protests by fear of losing their employment.

In a similar context another bylaw making the retirement age bigger was passed too, again protests were little since there was heavy mass media attacks to discredit syndicates and fear of being fired.

Finally there was a law known as Sinde's law (which was passed as part of the sustainable economy law or LES) this one put several additions to enforce the copyright rights of which the most critized was the ability of a commission to close web sites based on their infringement of copyright. The problem was that the judge there was left to just accept the decision and the commission had heavy representation by the executive power and none of the judicial power so it was seen by most as a way that could be exploited to close web pages against the executive power.

The main issue here was the fact that the law was passed by both big parties (and a small one) in a very dirty set of conditions (after being rejected a few times for example).

This law affecting most of the Internet citizens was heavily criticized and movement by the Internauts started to happen to oppose to it. Amongst them the #nolesvotes movement which proposed not voting in the next local elections to the three parties who passed the law PP, PSOE and CiU.