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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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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…

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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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

The lifes of powerful people must be transparent.

Having their business transparent makes sense but by restricting people's personal lives like this would disincentivize good people from rising to power, which is not what we want.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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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…

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Sarcasm tag missing or is this serious?

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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The tone of the post sounds like smear since it entirely dismisses his advocacy of personal liberty with claims that havn't been published in Danish media as far as I know. It would be interesting if you could elaborate on the claims that be was a corrupt police officer and drug dealer. My understanding of his own account is that he left the force when he wasn't comfortable arresting people over weed and that he saw…

> you could elaborate on the claims that be was a corrupt police officer and drug dealer. This is public record. It’s entirely published he’s charged and received a prison sentence for the crime, the investigation into corruption started but needed early when he handed in his resignation. which is just proof that he was a corrupt cop in a corrupt system. I mean no drug dealer who gets charged is going to get off by g…

I get the impression that you have (or claim to have) information that isn't publicly available and think he is disingenuous or imormal as a person.

Do you also disagree with the causes he is promoting or only the person and/or methods?

Some of his ideas, like full anarcho capitalism, I would need to be convinced before being onboard with. But opposing mass surveillance and promoting government accountability seems odd to vigorously oppose.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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> What would happen if the owner was armed and harmed the police thinking that they were criminals? A hefty prison sentence for illegal handling of firearms and attempted homicide would be my guess.

I was thinking of the police officers. Why risk your life for such a petty crime?

The activist is well known. They likely knew he would answer the door, yet they still broke it down. In the U.S., you'd probably shoot some dog in that situation, if one was available.

The entire scene is probably not meant as effective policing, but as punitive theater. This also explains why they disabled the cameras, as the theater was not intended for content reuse.

Given that, I'd assume they knew he wouldn't shoot them or do anything even remotely like that.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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> The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number Umm, so was he arrested for doxing the prime minister? Is there more to the story than that? As someone who cares about…

> Obviously i want that to apply to everyone not just the rich and famous Do you really want armed and masked police to break down the doors of people who dox others, disable their cameras, and arrest them while refusing to tell them the charges? Because without these details this would have been a non-story.

Both sides are not looking too pretty here.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Sarcasm tag missing or is this serious?

They're probably not being sarcastic. Wrong, and ppssibly evil, but not sarcastic. There are some weirdly big Palantir fans on HN. No clue what drives them, but I'm guessing they're not keen students of history.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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> 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.

You can. But ammunition and the guns have to be stored in separate safes. And it's essentially impossible to get off with a self defense claim if you have time to gather your legal guns

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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> 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.

It would still (in most cases, your response have to be proportional to the threat) be a crime to use them against a intruder.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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The lifes of powerful people must be transparent.

Having their business transparent makes sense but by restricting people's personal lives like this would disincentivize good people from rising to power, which is not what we want.

Good, I don't want people rising to unlimited, uncheckable power and creating oppressive hierarchies in general.
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