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Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

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Re: Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

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Translation from deepl.com: House searches of net activists Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action Police have searched club rooms and homes of net activists. Those affected are only witnesses, but documents and technology have been confiscated. This raises questions of proportionality. By Maik Baumgärtner, Martin Knobbe and Vanessa Schlesier Evidence object from the OpenLab in Augsburg: object from the 3D prin…

Wow, great translation! I could only find one meaning-distorting error: Translation: “This is obviously the only reason why the German investigators took such massive action against the association.” (which reads very nearly like an editorial stance, not like dry newsprint, which is much more the actual tone of the German article) The actual meaning is more along the lines of: “This seems to be the only reason why th…

Deepl.com is an amazing automatic translator. I sometimes hesitate to post links online, thinking that it might be taken offline eventually due to popularity.

Thanks for taking the last paragraph through deepl.com. Also, if you look at the translation on deepl.com and click on the specific phrases, you will find various alternative translations that specific phrase. I am not sure if the specific meaning-distortion you mentioned would have the right alternative, but still I enjoy the fact that you can easily rephrase certain passages.

Re: Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

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Wow, great translation! I could only find one meaning-distorting error: Translation: “This is obviously the only reason why the German investigators took such massive action against the association.” (which reads very nearly like an editorial stance, not like dry newsprint, which is much more the actual tone of the German article) The actual meaning is more along the lines of: “This seems to be the only reason why th…

yes, "apparently" is a better fit than "obviously"

Ah, yeah, that’s the best translation. Didn’t think of that.

Re: Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

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I suppose he means things like G20 violence in Hamburg a year ago. That included e.g. trying to kill and harm police officers. https://www.dw.com/en/g20-violence-in-hamburg-german-leaders...

And how's that related to CCC?

A local branch of them was affected, too. Police did not care much whose rooms/buildings to raid.

Re: Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose he means things like G20 violence in Hamburg a year ago. That included e.g. trying to kill and harm police officers. https://www.dw.com/en/g20-violence-in-hamburg-german-leaders...

And how's that related to CCC?

The CCC have colaborated with extremists for some time.
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