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> A website set up by an unknown Dane > The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denma
by zaik 1y ago
> A website set up by an unknown Dane
> The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark.
That's a lot of knowledge about an unknown person.
- willvarfar 1y agoFurther down the article explains: > Joachim himself declined to provide his last name or workplace because his employer does not want to be associated with the campaign. POLITICO has verified his identity. Joachim said his employer has no commercial interest in the legislation, and he alone paid the costs associated with running the website.
- nickslaughter02 1y agoI wouldn't be surprised if he was still targeted by the people and companies lobbying for the law.
- ACCount37 1y ago[flagged]
- veeti 1y agoYou can't fire people in Denmark for having the wrong opinions.
- m0llusk 1y agoWork is more than being fired or not.
- mrweasel 1y agoTrue, but having worked for quite a few software companies in that city, most probably agree with him. Hell, he'd probably get job offers. But I don't blame him, the Danish minister of justice who is pushing for this bill is a complete nut job. So technically it go hurt him if he needs a security clearance with Danish police or military intelligence.
- poizan42 1y agoYeah, there were 119 people born in 1995 with first name Joachim, and 123 in 1994[0]. There is a pretty good chance that there is currently only one 30-years old Joachim employed as a software engineer in Aalborg. [0]: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-til-nyfoedte https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-ti...
- WastedCucumber 1y agoGosh I hope Joachim isn't his real name.
- wvbdmp 1y agoCould be a German immigrant. I don’t know much about Danish naming conventions, but I imagine Joachim is more prevalent in Germany.
- poizan42 1y agoDunno, but there aren't enough German immigrants to do much to the statistics anyways.
- netsharc 1y agoYeah, a quick search says there's 21000 men aged 25-34 in Aalborg. Let's say an equal spread of 2100 men in each age, how many would be named Joachim? Probably a few dozens...
- ipaddr 1y agoOver 2,000. It's not as common as Joe.
- zamadatix 1y agoI think they mean of the ~2100 which are 30.
- Agingcoder 1y agoThe fake anonymity journalists often give to sources (‘Richard D , from small town X, aged 34, works as a carpenter specializing in 16th century house renovation’) is something I find rather striking. What’s not clear to me though is whether they’re deliberately tricking their source, or whether they genuinely don’t understand that their source is not anonymous when they give that many details.
- poizan42 1y agoYou can find statistics about number of people born in Denmark in a given year with a given name at https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-til-nyfoedte https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-ti... There are 119 people born in 1995 with first name Joachim, and 123 in 1994. So probably somewhere around 120 30-year old Joachims in Denmark right now. About 3.75% of the population lives in Aalborg. So assuming an even distribution of 30-years old Joachims, we would expect 4-5 people in Aalborg. There seems to be a very good chance that there is only one possible software engineer named Joachim then.
- bapak 1y ago"unknown" means "not known by most", not just "not known by anyone"