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Sunshine@lemmy.ca Joined: 2024-09-16

maam@feddit.uk Joined: 2024-11-20

Finland will become euro skeptic if the EU Commission keeps pushing for surveillance policies such as chat control, digital id, car driver cameras and age verification.

rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr Joined: 2026-02-02

Is there a transcript of the video?

kilgore_trout@feddit.it Joined: 2022-06-21

It's not only the EU Commission. The Council (member States' PMs) actively support all these.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2024-04-09

loutr@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-11

Yeah, "Europe" is a convenient scapegoat but this bill would have been buried long ago if the member countries were against it.

SMillerNL@piefed.social Joined: 2026-01-03

While the EU kids act is a terrible idea, Louis Rossmann is also a bad person: https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#:~:text=2026-,Louis Rossmann

Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2025-03-18

what a crappy website and there is no mention of why he is a bad person or the others on that weird website. someone needs to gets some better anti-foss patrons

clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2023-07-24

Getting money from weird fascist people should be enough... and it's enough.

BTW, that site is what sites should look like to normal people, not all the javascript bullshit with tons of idiotic animations and so on.,

SMillerNL@piefed.social Joined: 2026-01-03

Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username “larossmann”.

Is pretty clearly bad.

UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl Joined: 2026-09-24

He’s a one issue personality that will happily work with/ accept donations from anyone willing to further his one issue. He’s been pretty up front with that stance.

You don’t need Drew to tell you where he stands. Imo I don’t herald the guy as a saint like some influencer simps do, he’s not hell incarnate either and does do good work in his field.

Telorand@reddthat.com Joined: 2023-07-09

The YouTube comment he posted is certainly problematic at best:

The comment in full

I have my own idea of what a man or a woman is that I am going to guess is different from the politician in question. That being said, bringing this shit up all the time is absolutely counterproductive and useless. Especially when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Imagine if I was talking to a politician who weighed 400 pounds and agreed with me on an issue that mattered. And let's say that person did not like being referred to as fat because they do not think they are overweight. Would it be incumbent upon me to point out that they are fat? What benefit does that do for me? If this person is trying to help me not get screwed over by companies that lie and cheat to get laws passed in their favor so they can rob us blind, it's not really important in that moment that I point out that that person is in fact obese. What their personal belief of "obesity" is is a useless discussion that has nothing to do with my own actions and identity.

What people choose to do in their own homes or what they choose to call themselves is their business and is not something I care to discuss.

What matters more than that to me is what people tell me I am not allowed to do in my own home with the products that I bought and paid for. That is an issue that is much more important to me.

...there's no source included for the accusation that he "regularly posts" on Kiwi Farms. Did he mention it in a video? Was it another YouTube comment? Something posted on his Discord? What's the source of the username connection? We don't need a link to the Kiwi Farms user, we just need the compelling evidence that the user larossmann is indeed him.

I don't mind taking him to task over his YouTube comment, but I need more than "trust me, bro" on the other one.

Squizzy@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-16

Seems inappropriate to call him out alongside people for propping up war criminals. Maybe there are shades?

I have never heard of Kiwi Farms and I would prefer they didn't paraphrase when they are giving out anout his quotes because I still don't know what he said.

Disappointing about Jeff Geerling but it doesn't really impact the info I get from him. He isn't going to make me hate abortions.

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