"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.