A Spanish magazine has been banned for insulting the crown

The Spanish Justice has seized all remaining copies of the latest issue of the satirical magazine 'El Jueves' which has a front page featuring a caricature of the crown prince having sex with his wife. The daily considers that "The representation of the Princely couple is indeed outrageously coarse, but it is difficult to admit that it is 'injurious', in the sense defined by article 490 of the Penal Code. ... The banning of publications in the era of the Internet and new technologies is a perfectly useless and counter-productive attempt protecting the so called flouted rights. How now to prevent the flood of reproductions of the banned caricature in the face of the current number of computer supports that are beyond control ? The decision taken by the law is contributing to what it wants to avoid, adding publicity to the caricature."

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