Spain's interventionist and authoritarian communication policy: Telefónica as political battering ram of the Spanish right

Laws, judicial actions and privatizations of public firms have come together over the past two years to outline a new Spanish communications policy. Wrapped in a discourse that is paradoxically both neoliberal and deregulatory, this policy is curtailing freedom of expression. The central role in these events of Telefónica, the Spanish telephone company, raises questions of international importance.