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Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1p9kxhm/belgian_federal_police_forgot_to_turn_their_vpn/
49•saubeidl•54m ago

Comments

elric•26m ago
Is there a source that isn't a gif on reddit?
ajb•12m ago
As ones of the comments says, you can go to 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•6m ago
It 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•6m ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
p2detar•4m ago
[delayed]
letmetweakit•20m ago
The proof in the post is pretty dubious.
zimza•3m ago
Another thing that will not be properly investigated, as usual.
saubeidl•2m ago
Not 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.

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Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1p9kxhm/belgian_federal_police_forgot_to_turn_their_vpn/
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