Microsoft has no issue with getting rid of politically problematic repos.
https://www.technadu.com/github-removes-protest-organizing-a... - when Microsoft won't respect the right to protest in Spain, they won't give two figs about that same right in China.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/8xe... - for another example, this time in the US.
There's a difference between protest and sedition, and the Catalan independence movement went full in on treason.
The second is doxxy, so it is understandable to an extent.
There's a few hundred million mainlanders, and the entire leadership of the CCP who feel the same way about Hong Kong. Perhaps Madrid and Beijing should compare notes?
Catalonia does not have a legal right to just break free from Spain. It would also be difficult for any country if the richest region could break free at will.
On the other hand Hong Kong has a legal right for local rules for at least 50 years after the handover in 1997. That treaty was broken last year.
So legally Spain is in the right and China is wrong.
No, significantly more authority was devolved to the region from the democratic governments following Franco. However there was no point in history where Catalonia breaking away was an explicitly allowed option (of course).
But more importantly it is a joke to compare the situation in Catalonia with that of Hong Kong. It’s not like we see trains full of people on the way to torture in concentration camps leaving Barcelona.
Is there? Please elaborate, because to me it merely looks like a matter of perspective.
So it's not the perspective, it's the legality of goals and methods. For instance in Russia, you can't protest the war in Ukraine, so going on the streets about it isn't "just protesting", one is willingly breaking the law for the cause.