I'm guessing in the same way as Bit Torrent and others before it .. with big flaming headlines, politicians foaming at the mouth, lawyers rubbing their hands with glee and the world for the general public becoming a little bit more shit whilst the actual miscreants carry on with impunity on some other platform or get funded by venture capitalists who make everything legal but no less palatable.
I'm not familiar with how many telephones in Spain are landlines, but looking at Australia, where I am, the majority of connections don't have an SLA battery, made even more power dependent because we have been rolling out fibre optic cable everywhere and the copper wire in the ground has been disconnected, preventing telephone exchanges from powering much of anything anymore.
The idea that generators will keep the essentials running is incomplete if not outright incorrect. Most of these systems have never been actually tested with an actual outage, look at Heathrow airport for a recent example.
At best a generator will run for up to 12 hours, and only if you have multiple generators and the fuel to run them will you have much in the way of energy security.
Of course if you're already running on a generator then the picture is different, but even then, in the case of a country wide power outage, getting fuel for longer periods of time is going to be a challenge.
The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
refrigeration equipment in homes, restaurants, hotels, factories
transport infrastructure like street lights, traffic lights, railway crossing lights
trains, consider for example control of signalling and switching, let alone electric trains
fuel distribution like petrol pumps
hospitals
broadcasting like TV and radio
aviation
Essentially society as we know it stops, at least for a while. Generators are used, but are often of limited use, since getting fuel to them is non-trivial and many are scaled for short outages.
Without knowing what happened in Spain, I can say that events like this can and do happen around the world. It's likely that this will increase.
Given how interconnected the electricity grid is, I'm surprised that this didn't cascade across Europe.
My gender goal is that we build a society where your gender matters less than your hair colour and that your hair colour is a matter of personal preference.
Can we nominate people? There's an Orange that comes to mind.