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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by mhitza »

foder wrote: post #45
mhitza wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What security concerns? Of a person telling people where you live? Are the homes of Danish prime ministers secret?

I think some context is being lost in a literal translation. I think they mean secret as in unlisted where their records aren't accessible in public government databases. The same protection you would get if you were stalked for example.

I get that it's a secret location now, but I don't understand in context if this activist is the trigger of the situation. An if so how can this be considered a threat.

Stalking falls under the broad category of harassment in my eastern european country. I feel as if this would be a non issue given an official police warning. At most.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by sucrosesucrose »

bawolff wrote: post #21
sword_smith wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That same prime minister supports the warrant-less use of medical records in police work and the ban of encryption through chat control. She wants to prevent the Danish population from having privacy, but demands it herself. Sorry, but that's not the Western way.

Just because you disagree with someone does not make it ok to dox them.

The lifes of powerful people must be transparent.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by teiferer »

sword_smith wrote: post #40
bawolff wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You dont have to give up equality under the law, you just have to accept that there is a lot more that goes into a prosecution than the act. Were witnesses cooperative and credible, what was the intent, what was context. I dont know the specifics of this case. Maybe there was a miscarriage of justice. But just the fact the acts are the same doesn't show that. There is a lot more factors to consider.

Your obfuscation carries no argumentative weight, as the uncertainty your obfuscation attempts to introduce might as well be used in the reverse: maybe the guy who made the original threat (that was not prosecuted) had a criminal record involving violent crimes whereas Lars' text obviously should be taken in the political, non-violent, activist context that is his modus operandi.

> might as well be used in the reverse

I don't think they would reject that. In fact, you are arguing their point: It's the context that matters, not just the act. Without knowing the context it's not valid to presume a particular scenario.

Not sure how that's "obfuscation".

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by messe »

tchalla wrote: post #48
selcuka wrote: post #13

> When the two civilian dressed masked men entered the apparentment I think this is very irresponsible. What would happen if the owner was armed and harmed the police thinking that they were criminals?

> What would happen if the owner was armed Might as well talk about unicorns as we are imaging this scenario in Denmark.

You can own multiple guns and store them at your residence in Denmark. I know a couple of people who do so, admittedly both ex-military.

This isn't limited to shotguns or bolt action rifles for hunting. You can own up to six handguns.

You do need to be licensed however, and given Andersen's history he probably wouldn't be permitted.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by teiferer »

ethagnawl wrote: post #31
zazazache wrote: post #2

Pretty tricky by the cops to turn off power directly and to steal his cameras. Shows that if you are concerned something like this would happen to you that you need to invest in more resilient solutions. Probably something with batteries and also hidden.

They did this to Afroman, too. Though, in his case, they didn't lead with the panel and the result is the infamous video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy7XO-SCI0 It makes you wonder how much of an effect this incident has had on protocols. But, yeah, depending on your threat matrix, you might want to consider hidden trail cams with their own cell service.

Next step would be to cut the cells too.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by AnonymousPlanet »

N_Lens wrote: post #28
Quothling wrote: post #22

I'm Danish and lars kragh andersen is a bit of a grey zone. He obviously goes over the line, he tried to put GPS trackers on the cars of ministers. He "stalks" their families, and dox their children online. He gave an interview on how he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed when he was a cop because he doesn't agree with the "war on drugs". On the flip-side, he's sort of right. I assume that putting a GPS tra…

I expect he’ll be justified and vindicated in history if we end up in a global totalitarian prison planet scenario that seems to become more possible as the tech reaches that capability. “For the safety of the children” ofcourse.

What kind of history will a totalitarian prison planet write, I wonder.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by teiferer »

breppp wrote: post #41

The archetype of the whining activist. Getting himself in idiotic trouble so he could benefit from the status of a victim and ensuing drama

If the goal was to maximize attention to the event (in order to use it to steer attention towards the cause) then it was quite successful, no? After all, we're talking about it here. Mostly about him and the details of the event, but some sub-threads are about the cause too.

So, success?

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