On October 1st, the Catalonian government will hold a referendum on regional independence from Spain. The Spanish government maintains that the referendum is unconstitutional and has been taking aggresive measures to attempt to prevent the vote from happening. This resulted in the seizure of paper ballots, arrests of elected Catalonian politicians on charges of sedition, and the deployment of 16,000 police and military forces in Catalonia.

The crackdown also manifested online through an escalation...