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Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

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Re: Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

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Post by prmoustache »

croisillon wrote: post #46
prmoustache wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my 11 year old daughter has one too. And she asked for it. I think that was because of Shakira's song against her ex.

I'm worth two 22-year-olds You traded in a Ferrari for a Twingo You traded in a Rolex for a Casio if anything your daughter should wear a Rolex?

Well it depends which side she took. I didn't really asked for a reasonning but if that new girlfriend is the reason her ex dumped her, that mean she is not that bad and a Casio may not be that inferior to a Rolex (which would anyway have led to a straight no had she asked for it). After all, a Casio F-91W is more reliable than a Rolex to give time and has other features such as an alarm clock.

I think Casio in some latin countries played with it as meme on twitter at the time.

I also think a Twingo is overall a much better car than any Ferrari for daily and lawful use.

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Post by hibikir »

throw123xz wrote: post #45
elnatro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ClodFlare does not want to comply with court rulings. Not in Spain, nor in France.

Which court rulings in Spain Cloudflare doesn't want to comply with?

It's not quite that. LaLiga got a ruling (310/2024, Dec-18-2024) So that they can demand Spanish ISPs to block IPS that LaLiga claims are used to pirate soccer games. But as one would expect, piracy like this involves some CDNing, and therefore CloudFlare IPs. But since those don't necessarily point to individual customers on the other side, in practice it means parts of the internet don't work well in Spain while a game is going on, as the IP blocks that are deemed to be full of piracy are hosting all kinds of other things.

So the issue isn't whether piracy is getting stopped or not, but that the blast radius hits a whole lot of people, including other cloudflare customers.

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Post by pier25 »

prmoustache wrote: post #37
elnatro wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then the title is wrong and should mention that “A Catalan policeman says that…”.

Mossos aren't policemen.

Yeah they are. Their official name is literally "Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossos_d%27Esquadra

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Post by tiagod »

lupusreal wrote: post #47
metalman wrote: post #30

The police in Spain can thank there lucky stars that they are not dealing with the drug gangs in Mexico and South America, where they are flying militerised drones, and are trying to build narco drone subs with starlink https://maritime-executive.com/article/colombian-navy-captur...

They have been, at least a little. They've captured narco subs crossing the Atlantic, including to Spain specifically. The cartels must have trusted associates in Europe to receive these shipments, and that probably means violent enforcers of the cartels in Europe. With unmanned narco subs making longer voyages simpler, this is likely to become an even bigger problem.

They've actually caught one of those subs being built in Spain! https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/span...

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Post by pier25 »

metalman wrote: post #30

The police in Spain can thank there lucky stars that they are not dealing with the drug gangs in Mexico and South America, where they are flying militerised drones, and are trying to build narco drone subs with starlink https://maritime-executive.com/article/colombian-navy-captur...

Spain is one of the biggest gateways of drugs into Europe (if not the biggest one). They've been dealing with LATAM mafia for decades.

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Post by skybrian »

15155 wrote: post #2

One random cop makes one ignorant statement and now all "cops in Spain" think something.

The headline is exaggerated to make the cops sound like idiots. If they suspect someone might be a drug dealer (fair - it's a clue), that's very different from thinking they "must" be a drug dealer.

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Post by elnatro »

throw123xz wrote: post #45
elnatro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ClodFlare does not want to comply with court rulings. Not in Spain, nor in France.

Which court rulings in Spain Cloudflare doesn't want to comply with?

Cloudflare does not provide the information to the court about the clients that do piracy.

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Post by danillonunes »

anthk wrote: post #23
netsharc wrote: post #9

If they're wearing a Casio F91W, then they're a terrorist AND a drug dealer! Many years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13194733

For Gen-Zers, that's the watch everyone's dad and older millenials used to wear everywhere in the world.

I've seen a lot of young people wearing the silver and gold versions of it. I think there's a vintage trend, just like with the cyber shot cameras, but they're not really full committed to the black rubber ones.

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Post by soraminazuki »

skybrian wrote: post #66
15155 wrote: post #2

One random cop makes one ignorant statement and now all "cops in Spain" think something.

The headline is exaggerated to make the cops sound like idiots. If they suspect someone might be a drug dealer (fair - it's a clue), that's very different from thinking they "must" be a drug dealer.

Your characterization is under-exaggerated to make this problem sound normal. It's not.

> Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer

Being a Pixel or GrapheneOS user should never be a "clue" of criminality. It should never result in police detaining you or rummaging through your phone. Any police that acts in this way is indeed an "idiot."

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