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It's blatantly obvious to you. It may not be blatantly obvious to a nationalistic charismatic leader who thinks Franco wasn't too bad and actually needs only a bit of better PR and some long tongues silenced, and it would be for the best of public interest to do this. Look at what's going on in Russia. You think it can't happen in Spain or Germany? It already happened before and very well can happen again. Anytime and anywhere. The layer protecting the rights of people from oppression - including popular and widely supported oppression - is very thin. EU rule made it even thinner. Now anybody can memory-hole any information they don't like - and this would especially true for powerful and connected people who want to suppress information about their wrongdoings. You worry about teenage shenanigans - but this can - and will - be used to hide very adult shenanigans with very important consequences too. And you will have no say in if it's "public interest" or not.