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The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA.

hulitu 1y ago
> The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA. Are you sure ? They say in the article that they were not able to fing out who sent the email. Site was behind Cloudfare (so US).
- HumanOstrich 1y ago
  Does Cloudflare only allow US customers?
user_7832 1y ago
The FBI is the primary party appearing to be in this investigation, and to the best of my knowledge are both of the US (govt), and are federal. (I'm not a US person so please correct me if I'm wrong.)
- Vegemeister 1y ago
  Isn't a simpler explanation that the FBI was co-opted in the same way as Adguard, rather than that the FBI is masterminding the scheme?
_yb2s 1y ago
This article is specifically an article about an investigation by the FBI- US federal agents.
- shkkmo 1y ago
  The article mentions the FBI investigation but is not about that. This article is about a pressure campaign, the letter Web Abuse Association Defense sent to adguard making threats under french law and adguard's investigation in response to that letter.
  - vintermann 1y ago
    A French organization with an English name, writing in English? J'en doute.
    - immibis 1y ago
      Very many European citizens speak English and it's the lingua franca* of the Internet.
    - axiolite 1y ago
      It was exceptionally clear from reading their writing, they are NOT native English speakers. It seems 57% of people in France can speak English, which I can easily believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s... No reason to doubt this is coming from a French person.
  - _yb2s 1y ago
    Which was what my parent comment referred to. Comments replying to mine act like it's unreasonable for me to talk about US federal agents in the context of this subject, when those are what the article mentions specifically, many times.
School-Cotton 1y ago
France doesn't have a federal government, as it's not a federation.
- carlosjobim 1y ago
  Yes, I know that.

> The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA. Are you sure ? They say in the article that they were not able to fing out who sent the email. Site was behind Cloudfare (so US).

HumanOstrich 1y ago
Does Cloudflare only allow US customers?

user_7832 1y ago

The FBI is the primary party appearing to be in this investigation, and to the best of my knowledge are both of the US (govt), and are federal. (I'm not a US person so please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Vegemeister 1y ago
Isn't a simpler explanation that the FBI was co-opted in the same way as Adguard, rather than that the FBI is masterminding the scheme?

_yb2s 1y ago

This article is specifically an article about an investigation by the FBI- US federal agents.

shkkmo 1y ago
The article mentions the FBI investigation but is not about that. This article is about a pressure campaign, the letter Web Abuse Association Defense sent to adguard making threats under french law and adguard's investigation in response to that letter.
- vintermann 1y ago
  A French organization with an English name, writing in English? J'en doute.
  - immibis 1y ago
    Very many European citizens speak English and it's the lingua franca* of the Internet.
  - axiolite 1y ago
    It was exceptionally clear from reading their writing, they are NOT native English speakers. It seems 57% of people in France can speak English, which I can easily believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s... No reason to doubt this is coming from a French person.
- _yb2s 1y ago
  Which was what my parent comment referred to. Comments replying to mine act like it's unreasonable for me to talk about US federal agents in the context of this subject, when those are what the article mentions specifically, many times.

School-Cotton 1y ago

France doesn't have a federal government, as it's not a federation.

carlosjobim 1y ago
Yes, I know that.