On the 14th of October, thousands of Catalan protesters peacefully occupied the second largest Spanish Airport, El Prat in Barcelona. They managed to successfully block the building resulting in the cancellation of over a hundred flights. The flash meet-up was organized exclusively using digital channels by an anonymous, and to this date unknown organization: Tsunami Democràtic.

Days later, while the Spanish authorities were discussing police action and hinted towards the application of the anti-terrorist laws and tribunals, the anonymous activists where on the other hand, focusing their efforts on improving and publishing their mobile app. It is based in a complex friend-to-friend (F2F) architecture that decentralizes and anonymizes information broadcasting with the use of asymmetric cryptography and distributed networks.

And while the conventional political commentators still debated on television the taking of the airport as if it was just another angry mob, Tsunami Democràtic arrived at Product Hunt and became global, their source code was published on GitHub accessible for all and their Telegram channel surpassed 400.000 members, one of the most active in the world. Like in Hong Kong previously, for the first time technology took a pivotal role in the long tradition of European social revolts.

This Wednesday El Clásico will take place in Barcelona: the soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. One of the most important sporting events in the world with an estimated audience of more than 650 million spectators from 185 countries. Both teams will play soccer while police and demonstrators will play a game of cat-and-mouse. Nobody knows for certain what will happen after Tsunami Democràtic ambiguously called for everyone to play the match.

Neither do we know who is behind Tsunami Democràtic. Are we in front of a freedom tsunami that empowers self-managed citizens, or on the verge of a sophisticated era of schemed alienation?

The Spanish judiciary took 24 hours to shut Tsunami Democràtic's website: a record for an institution whose time frames are usually measured in months and years. The activists, on the other hand, took no more than 5 minutes to reopen it again, and dozens of replicas flourished in a more than expected Streisand Effect. Are 20th century laws and procedures efficient for 21th century protests?

By court order tsunamidemocratic.cat website cannot be accessed from Spain, but not from other countries. The measure, trivial to bypass, seems to suppose the modern reedition of an Index Librorum Prohibitorum in one of the most important democracies in the world. Does it make sense to impose national jurisdictions in a liquid medium like internet?

Only this autumn, over a million people took to the streets throughout Chile to protest in a coordinated campaign, crowds in Hong Kong defied the police in massive marches, and tens of thousands of Catalan protesters occupied the second largest Spanish Airport. The flash meet-ups have been organized mainly using digital channels, and in the case of Catalonia by an anonymous, and to this date unknown organization: Tsunami Democràtic.

Regarding Catalonia, while the Spanish authorities were discussing police action and hinted towards the application of the anti-terrorist laws and tribunals, the anonymous activists where on the other hand, focusing their efforts on improving and publishing their mobile app. It is based in a complex friend-to-friend (F2F) architecture that decentralizes and anonymizes information broadcasting with the use of asymmetric cryptography and distributed networks.

And while the conventional political commentators still debated on television the taking of the airport as if it was just another angry mob, the protester's app became global, their source code was published on GitHub accessible for all and their Telegram channel surpassed 410,000 members, one of the most active in the world.

For the first time technology is playing a pivotal role in the empowerment of social revolts worldwide. Are we in front of a freedom tsunami that empowers self-managed citizens, or on the verge of a sophisticated era of schemed alienation? Are 20th century laws and procedures efficient for 21th century protests? Does it make sense to impose national jurisdictions in a liquid medium like the internet?