Someone will end the bulls and it won't be Twitter

Take a walk in the bullring of Malaga.JOSERRA LOZANO

Algorithms sometimes give us joy, such as when they have named the bullfighting festival (which is nothing but the bullfighting and bullfighting festival, if by party we understand an act of fun and enjoyment, as indicated by the RAE ).

Twitter has closed the account of a fan of the right-handed Morante de la Puebla for "promoting sadistic pleasure" by displaying images of a bullfight so bloody that they violated the terms of use of the network, that string of conditions that we always accept without reading and that they are becoming the laws of the new world.

This is no time to be happy about the closure of any account. But it does analyze how the networks have not only become the arena in which colossal battles are settled, in which elections are won or lost, but also in courts capable of quickly sentencing what in the real world costs us more. . Donald Trump was expelled from Twitter after appealing to the mobilization that led to the assault on the Capitol, a live coup attempt that continues without a judicial or legislative investigation as it deserves. Soon we will go to Twitter to decide if a state of alarm is constitutional for not waiting for their honorable Members to have a little while to get to it.

Twitter has named the bulls, we said, but Twitter will not end them. The supposed party was in decline with falls of 60% of the runs in the last decade already before the pandemic. In a survey carried out by the Government (2014-2015), 90.5% of Spaniards admit that they do not attend bullfighting celebrations. 40% claim a lack of interest and 20% say that, directly, they do not understand it. 56.4% of Spaniards are against the bulls and only 24.7% in favor, according to another 2019 poll for

that clearly showed the division between left and right voters, especially Vox .

The public has been leaving the

not so much for economic reasons, as the sector alleges, as for the emotional disengagement of a model that embarrasses the new generations, according to other surveys. That bullfighting is part of Spanish culture is undoubted. That includes fun from the suffering and death of an animal, too. Twitter has said it: sadistic pleasure. But it will not be this network that ends them, but a society in progressive evolution.