OCU, co-founder of the Platform in Defence of Freedom of Information (PDLI)

Composed of legislators and lawyers organisations such as the Bar Association of Madrid (ICAM), the Progressive Union of Public Prosecutors (UPF) or the Sol Legal Commission; of journalists such as the Federation of Journalists (FeSP); by the  media such as eldiario.es, 20minutos, the Disopress agency or the magazine Mongolia; consumer associations such as OCU and CEACCU; academics and research groups; and professionals like Mario Tascón, Virginia Pérez Alonso, Juan Luis Sánchez, Carlos Sánchez Almeida or Stéphane M. Grueso, the Platform in Defense of Freedom of Information (PDLI) arises from the concern over threats to the rights of freedom of information and expression in Spain.

According to the promoters of the PDLI, "legal reforms that penalise the right to protest and the dissemination of information, such as the Draft Law on the Protection of Public Safety, or which impede the normal operation of the Internet, such as the reform of the Intellectual Property Law; rules that hinder access to justice, such as court fees; or neutralise the right to public information, as with the so-called Transparency Act; or practices that,  for political reasons, seek to control the media, such as contracting institutional advertising as a discretionary element to ensure the survival of friendly media companies versus those who are not, show the precariousness of these essential rights ".

The Platform in Defence of Freedom of Information (PDLI) has also been born to stop attacks on freedom of expression of social movements (both the more institutionalised, such as consumer organisations or lawyers, as well as the new internet activism) and activists.
 
In particular, the PDLI denounces attempts to curb the development of new forms of protest that rely largely on freedom of information which internet, in particular, permits, through initiatives that are beginning to undermine fundamental rights.