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Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware

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>Remix is funded in part by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in Budapest Yeah that's the usual populist Fidesz propaganda then, why I'm not surprised Edit: you can downvote me these are facts HUF 3.5 billion from Rogán's ministry to the Lajos Batthyány Foundation, full of Fidesz members https://444.hu/2020/06/10/35-milliardot-kapott-rogan-miniszt... Rogán's Ministry gave HUF 9.2 billion to the Lajos Batthyány Foundatio…

Call it what it is: Fidesz is an arm of the Putin regime.

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1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled. 2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.

>Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel

Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn't allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.

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“Poland and the demon in democracy” https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/poland-and-the-demon-in-d...

Politicians committing crimes end up in courts and then in prison, plain and simple. And this is plain propaganda, repeating many talking points of the PiS party (the party previously in power, who illegally used Pegasus).

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Worth pointing out that bribed* by PIS reporters have made the Polish "public" (in reality party owned) television into a meme by the sheer amount and ridiculousness of propaganda. What older people watched out of habit and inability to get their information online, was so bad that you could as well watch it as a monthy python episode. And one of the most shown topics was blaming literally anything on the PM that rul…

> What older people watched out of habit and inability to get their information online

The quality of "news" old people end up finding online isn't any better than on TV.

I know because unfortunately, my parents in their 60's, both with advanced degrees, are now more retarded and brainwashed than ever, by all the nasty shit that gets pushed to them on Facebook, Youtube and Tiktok.

I think those are even worse than the TV, because in the EU what gets shown on TV is at least mildly regulated, but what gets shown to you on social media isn't.

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1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled. 2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.

3. And most importantly: all of that funded by the taxpayer, to satisfy one man's paranoia.
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