• fullsquare@awful.systems
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    14 days ago

    as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

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      14 days ago

      Nothing more Russian than police giving someone their database for a bribe.

      And it’s even more Russian that police then pays for convenient service to someone who’s bribed enough policemen to assemble enough data.

      It’s a common banality to say that Russian culture is somehow deeply authoritarian, but actually it’s suppressed anarcho-capitalism all around. LOL.

      (And it makes perfect sense that Ukrainian special services are working the same way. Shouldn’t have invaded such a similar country.)