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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by Lerc »

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…

>He goes way too far though. Especially if he actually wants change, the way he "protests" is directly damaging his own cause, since nobody is going to sympathise with harrassing children.

I don't think this is a given. Just Stop Oil says that their tactics do make people hate them, but their research tells them that it still makes peoples opinions on the issues move in the direction that they want them to. Their position is that if they achieve what they want while gathering animosity towards their organisation, once achieved, they can disband.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by NonHyloMorph »

klustregrif wrote: post #127
zaptheimpaler wrote: post #36

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This is the slave mindset that is letting politicians all over the world erode our rights. More and more and more. Every country is now passing deep anti-privacy, anti-VPN, anti-encryption and age-verification laws. The law is not written by us, its written by people who are only barely accountable to us once every couple of years. Authoritarianism is rising very sharply all over the world, corruption amongst the eli…

I think you’ve got his fake activism mixed up. When he was a cop he wasn’t claiming to be a privacy advocates his stick then was that cops should be allowed to do cocain while on the job and that if a cop though selling drugs was ok they should be free to not uphold the law whenever they felt like it. His fake stance on privacy came later when he faced consequences for doxing politicians and using the public Facebook…

Could you supply some ressources that make your framing plausible? That would be a valuable service to the community, as this discussion seems to be highly polarized. (from the ratio of downvoted comments to all comments). Reading through this discussion and not having heared of this before it's hard to tell what's genuine and what's not.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by nxm »

ktallett wrote: post #96
JuniperMesos wrote: post #68

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There have been cases in the US where homeowners shot cops dead who were in the process of unexpectedly raiding their home, because the homeowner had no idea they were cops and not home invasion robbers; and in some cases have been acquitted of murder charges by juries for this. I'd personally like to see the laws protecting this strengthened, to make sure that cops aren't charging unannounced into peoples' homes and…

I would much prefer a society where all homeowners and cops don't carry guns and cops were fired for illegal raids.

That’s not the real world. Criminals will always find a way to get guns no matter the amount of gun control you impose, so I’d rather have law abiding citizens be armed as well

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by actionfromafar »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #65
bawolff wrote: post #26

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Not exclusive, but in general its a bad idea to post on social media if you plan to take it up in court, as its very easy to accidentally say something that shoots yourself in the foot.

I suppose. I don't think that matters much in places with functioning legal systems.

It's the other way around.

In a functioning legal system it matters what you said or didn't. In a non-functioning legal system they will just convict you regardless of what was said or done.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by SukadarBukadar »

l23k4 wrote: post #139
raverbashing wrote: post #132

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How is force working for Hamas? The shift in general sentiment towards Israel came from Israel's blatant disregard for civilian life and from their apartheid politics being put in spotlight. Hamas are still regarded as terrorist savages by everyone sane and their Oct 7 attack served as an excuse for Israel to set them back and hunt them regardless of collateral casualties, terrorizing their compatriots

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by ngruhn »

monegator wrote: post #118
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…

> 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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Post by sensanaty »

klustregrif wrote: post #3

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> She currently lives at a secret address due to security concerns.

Oh so she cares about her own privacy? Curious then that she seems to be such an ardent advocate for Chat Control and for the erosion of encryption.

Politicians are such a disgusting, hypocritical bunch of "people", more people should be "doxxing" these weasels. Maybe eventually we'll find one of them that has 2 braincells to put together to comprehend their hypocrisy, but I guess there's little chance of that.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by walletdrainer »

SukadarBukadar wrote: post #155
l23k4 wrote: post #139

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How is force working for Hamas? The shift in general sentiment towards Israel came from Israel's blatant disregard for civilian life and from their apartheid politics being put in spotlight. Hamas are still regarded as terrorist savages by everyone sane and their Oct 7 attack served as an excuse for Israel to set them back and hunt them regardless of collateral casualties, terrorizing their compatriots

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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by SukadarBukadar »

l23k4 wrote: post #146
ACCount37 wrote: post #142

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2 out of 3 for "bombed to shit". I wouldn't call that "working". I'm not sure if Iran's regime has the staying power, but Hamas sure doesn't seem to be in a good shape lately.

> but Hamas sure doesn't seem to be in a good shape lately. And who do you see on track to displace Hamas? After years and years of conflict and being "bombed to shit", they're as entrenched as ever while their enemy declines much faster. Israel is getting to a point where it has no friends left in the world, where the average European youth thinks nuking Israel and turning into a glass parking lot would probably be…

There are two actors and you're mixing up who is responsible for which outcome. I explained in more detail in another comment

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by walletdrainer »

SukadarBukadar wrote: post #159
l23k4 wrote: post #146

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> but Hamas sure doesn't seem to be in a good shape lately. And who do you see on track to displace Hamas? After years and years of conflict and being "bombed to shit", they're as entrenched as ever while their enemy declines much faster. Israel is getting to a point where it has no friends left in the world, where the average European youth thinks nuking Israel and turning into a glass parking lot would probably be…

There are two actors and you're mixing up who is responsible for which outcome. I explained in more detail in another comment

There's no credit due for correctly reading your adversary?

Obviously the Israelis could have just kept their mask on, but Hamas was clearly correct in their calculation that they wouldn't.

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