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Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment
- elric 11mo agoIs there a source that isn't a gif on reddit?
- ajb 11mo agoAs ones of the comments says, you can go to https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Data-retention-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-impact-assessment/feedback_en?p_id=19693 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... and search by "invasive" to see that several responses are the same, some identified as police. But I don't think that's evidence of a botnet. Seems more likely a conventional letter writing campaign where people are invited to paste the same response. Could easily be within the police,which is dubious, but individual police officers may have the right to respond as individuals.
- p-e-w 11mo agoIt doesn’t really matter whether it’s a botnet or a coordinated campaign by police officers. The fact that police is interfering with the political process is somewhere between a breakdown of the rule of law, and an attempted coup. Voting isn’t going to fix stuff like this, that’s for sure.
- saubeidl 11mo agoQuis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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- dash2 11mo agoThis is a wildly hysterical comment.
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- pessimizer 11mo agoProfound. I'm convinced. Do you have any diagnoses for anyone else?
- p2detar 11mo agoYeah, 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-say/initiatives/14680-Data-retention-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-impact-assessment/F3567054_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...
- cluckindan 11mo ago”Go to this website and copy-paste this text there, or you will never see a promotion and may even be fired”
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- whynotmaybe 11mo agoGot any source for that or is it as hypothetical as "mama says I must fill this form to receive a bicycle for Christmas"?
- koonsolo 11mo agoSomeone makes a post with a "Police" username, and all of a sudden it's a botnet. Edit: Sorry, I didn't notice it was plural: botnets.
- letmetweakit 11mo agoThe proof in the post is pretty dubious.
- zimza 11mo agoAnother thing that will not be properly investigated, as usual.
- saubeidl 11mo agoNot unless there is political pressure for it. We are not bystanders in some scheme played out by others. We're the protagonists. Our (in-) action determines how things play out.
- p-e-w 11mo agoPlease describe a concrete action by private individuals that would lead to this incident being properly investigated.
- saubeidl 11mo agoThere'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!
- p-e-w 11mo ago7 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.
- saubeidl 11mo agoSure, that's one example of it going one way. Then there's Ghandi, the Arab Spring, Milošević, the Iranian Shah as examples of things going the other way - and those are just the ones that immediately came to mind. Again, don't be a bystander believing in foregone conclusions - that way you make them self-fulfilling prophecies. Be part of writing the story instead!
- coolbean 11mo agoThe "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 different IP addresses, names, organizations and comment content ... What remains open is whether these 19 commenters were instructed to submit these comments or if they did so on their own. If they did do it on their own, was it in their free time? If so, is it okay to do so under their employers name? [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Data-retention-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-impact-assessment/F3566978_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...
- miohtama 11mo ago19 comments.... What is this, a botnet for ants?
- perihelions 11mo agoReminds me of the time the EU Commission itself was caught violating laws in the course of their pro-Chat Control ad campaign, https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commission-over-targeted-chat-control-ads https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commissio... ("noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads") > "In September 2023, the Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on Twitter (X) to promote its heavily criticized chat control regulation... This move both undermined the established democratic procedures between EU institutions and violated the EU GDPR."
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- derelicta 11mo agoI wish. At least that would mean pedos, fascists and oligarchs get to face the wall.
- p2detar 11mo agoI’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.
- derelicta 11mo agoLet me guess, you are from the Baltics?
- neuronic 11mo agoYou are responding to someone with a sex-based racist slur as their username.
- derelicta 11mo agoThen this empty shell of a person would know the fate they would meet in a healthy and just society.
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- pogue 11mo agoReddit comment deleted. What was it?
- stefantalpalaru 11mo ago[dead]