Spain’s Minister of Youth and Childhood Sira Rego Advocates for Limiting and Banning the Use of X in Spain Under Sánchez’s Socialist Government to Control the Flow of Information and Silence Dissents
Spain’s Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, a communist militant of Izquierda Unida and part of the coalition government led by socialist Pedro Sánchez, has publicly declared her support for drastic measures against the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.
Rego has expressed that the next step for the Executive should be to «limit and surely prohibit» access to this platform not only for young people, but for the entire Spanish population, arguing that it is a space where «flagrant violations of fundamental rights» occur.
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This position reveals the authoritarian essence of leftist regimes, which have historically sought to censor independent media to perpetuate themselves in power, as has been seen in countries like Venezuela or Cuba under socialist governments.
Rego’s statements arose in the context of an event on digital activism in Barcelona, where she harshly criticized the owner of X, Elon Musk, accusing him of «making money at the expense of the rights of boys and girls, of undressing them on social networks» and of promoting «algorithmic formulations that push a specific ideology of the extreme right.»
The minister, who personally abandoned the platform a year ago, has requested the Secretariat of State for Communication to open a debate on whether the central Government should close all its official accounts on X, a measure already adopted by figures such as the second vice president Yolanda Díaz and the Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun in January 2025, considering the network a «propaganda mechanism» of the right.
This announcement is framed within the recent proposal by Pedro Sánchez, presented during the World Governments Summit in Dubai on February 3, 2026, to prohibit access to all social networks for minors under 16 years old through an organic law in parliamentary processing.
The initiative includes age verification systems and greater responsibilities for digital platforms, which has provoked international criticism. Musk responded by calling Sánchez a «tyrant» and «traitor to the Spanish people,» a reaction that Rego labeled as «absolute nonsense.»
However, from a conservative perspective, these measures do not protect minors, but serve as a pretext to extend state control over digital discourse, limiting the freedom of expression that X has facilitated since its acquisition by Musk, allowing dissenting voices against the government’s progressive policies.
Rego has emphasized that the current digital environment is «anti-democratic,» controlled by «a few digital caudillos» like Musk, and has demanded urgent legislative interventions at the European level, including the closure of platforms that accumulate fines for non-compliance.
Government sources indicate that the community directive already contemplates such sanctions, and Rego defends that regulating the virtual space is as necessary as the physical one, although she qualifies it as «very complicated» because it depends on private economic interests.
This authoritarian drift of the Sánchez government, with its coalition of radical lefts, confirms the fear that socialists and communists prioritize informational control over individual freedoms, stifling any platform that escapes the official narrative.
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