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• O__________O 4y ago
  Have not seen any information to support this claim. Appears that his edits were public and he self identified via his Wikipedia profile. Possible that non-government actors supportive of the current Belarus government reported him, but have not seen any information supporting methods you posted above.
  • deepsun 4y ago
    Of course if his profile was public then there's no need for that. By the way, I know way more about Belarus that average HN dweller, and I'd estimate number of "non-government actors supportive of the current Belarus government" same, if not less than government actors. There are dozens of govt-paid internet trolls/experts/bots working literally from KGB office. They are paid reasonably well ($1k+/month) and are constantly under pressure to report any success up the chain of command. Being so overstaffed, they are not as lazy as regular govt workers, and really do organize cross-agency investigative operations to make arrests of people like those who wrote "NO WAR" or "NOT MY PRESIDENT" on a random wall. Same as analyzing ISP logs -- they are overstaffed and pushed, so not lazy to do that.