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René Rebe, a 25-year veteran of Free and Open-Source Software development, was swatted and taken in for questioning.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I wonder what the hell you have to tell the police in Germany to take someone away for questioning (handcuffed, no less) based on an anonymous accusation. If I understand it correctly they didn't even search his home, at least not thoroughly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

From the link's comments, someone thought: "The police (no matter the country involved here) went way over the top on this. An anonymous e-mail is nowhere near enough evidence to go arresting/detaining someone without a thorough investigation first. The only possible exceptions being domestic violence, child abuse or a homicide in progress."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just telling them he supports not exterminating all Palestinians is probably enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Antisemitismus!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Also underclasses are bad and we shouldn't run things in a way that makes them.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am confused as to why the police doesn't put more work into finding the people doing this, it is a waste of resources to be called on a fake call. It also makes people loose trust in the police, and generates bad PR.

[–] nehal3m 39 points 4 days ago

They’re untouchable, why would they prevent themselves from harassing innocent people?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

Damn they swatted the code therapy dude...what a niche youtube channel to decide to fuck with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They should just only accept tips on swatting-related offenses from sources that are identifiable.

[–] ayyy 4 points 3 days ago

Good thing there weren’t any menacing baby cribs to throw grenades into.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The perps are the cops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@BrikoX What’s wrong with tomshardware site? Can’t hardly read two sentences before it crashes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Works fine on my end with uBlock Origin. But you can try archived version: https://archive.ph/WlM0e