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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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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.

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Benn Jordan did a video recently where he showed Flock cameras, which were hackable, pointing at children's playgrounds. Who is stalking the children?

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…

> He goes way too far though that's what activist have to do to shake people

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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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> 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?

This is a very... US comment to make.

I'm fully European, would not wonder for a second before plunging a knife into an intruder if I happened to have one near me.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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No it is not. Europeans can have guns, and there was a recent case in Belgium where such a thing happened.

I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to use your legal firearms against people in Denmark. Even in a home intrusion event.

In the EU the answer is always "it's unclear". Yes you can, but you also can't.

ECHR necessarily guarantees the right to shoot some intruders in some situations, but it's kind of impossible to know which situations those are except after the fact.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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1984 will be banned as being too inspirational, perhaps?

1984 is not inspirational, it's cautionary. The main character has already lost from the first page of the book.

I tend to disagree. 1984 seems the playbook for the majority of politicians. For them, it's inspirational.

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.

People that want to be powerful for personal gain will be filtered. People that legimitely want to give their all for their country will be encouraged.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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post #77

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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.

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Palantir is a child stalker tool.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Yes and no. Weapons are normal here too.

Shooting intruders isn’t though. They’d basically have to attack you first for lethal force to be legal.

> They’d basically have to attack you first for lethal force to be legal.

They just violently entered his home in an effort to attack him, dressed in a way designed to intimidate. These cops were deliberately cosplaying as some sort of a hit squad, they obviously wanted him to believe that they were going to kill him.

It's not like the cops just accidentally went out dressed like that.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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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.

Is it "just disagreeing with them" or is it taking away privacy _from those publicly renouncing the right to privacy_, with goal of protecting the right to privacy of everyone else, who didn't renounce it, by pointing out the hipocrisy and that it actually is important, even to those who claim otherwise trying to take it from others?
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