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Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Re: Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Post by derelicta »

neuronic wrote: post #31
derelicta wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish. At least that would mean pedos, fascists and oligarchs get to face the wall.

You are responding to someone with a sex-based racist slur as their username.

Then this empty shell of a person would know the fate they would meet in a healthy and just society.

Re: Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Post by derelicta »

p2detar wrote: post #30
derelicta wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish. At least that would mean pedos, fascists and oligarchs get to face the wall.

I’m coming from an ex-Soviet country and you don’t know how delusional you are about this. edit: If you’re in certain power circles, you are just as untouchable as western oligarchs. Moral and laws are for the proles.

Let me guess, you are from the Baltics?

Re: Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Post by anamax »

p-e-w wrote: post #13
saubeidl wrote: post #11

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There's many ways, from benign organizing of protests or involving the media all the way down to armed insurrection or terrorist threats. Again, you're a protagonist - choose your own story!

7 million people protested against Donald Trump on October 18th, one of the largest protests in human history. It meant Jack Shit. If they had brought arms, they would have been gunned down by people with more powerful arms, and it would still mean Jack Shit.

> 7 million people protested against Donald Trump on October 18th, one of the largest protests in human history.

What should have happened if 6 million people had protested against Biden? How about 8 million?

Re: Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Post by miohtama »

coolbean wrote: post #16

The "Organization" field is provided by the submitter themselves. It is not based on an IP (geo)location feed. I have deduced this based on a comment where the organization field is "federal police" in lower case [1]. There are a total of 19 comments with the same content. The claim that they were submitted by a botnet is easily dismissable. Especially given the fact that a "botnet"/troll farm would likely use differ…

19 comments.... What is this, a botnet for ants?

Re: Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

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Post by whynotmaybe »

cluckindan wrote: post #18
p2detar wrote: post #7

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Yeah, I saw this comment [0] and I'm very confused as to how one concludes there is a botnet in play, let alone by a public institution. Most likely it is an employee in the police, which is totally fine. They're not forbidden to express opinion. 0 - https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

”Go to this website and copy-paste this text there, or you will never see a promotion and may even be fired”

Got any source for that or is it as hypothetical as "mama says I must fill this form to receive a bicycle for Christmas"?
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