@ins0mniak @dj @lanodan @ryan

> I'm still on that HateAid thing

Holy fucking shit: https://hateaid.org/en/petition-travis-brown-free-research/ .

Travis Brown is a name that you might remember, and if you do then you probably know exactly why Germany would be pissed if he has trouble going about business as usual.

After the BND's surveillance of foreign journalists was ruled illegal in Germany ( https://rsf.org/en/worldwide-mass-surveillance-germany-s-intelligence-service-declared-unconstitutional-landmark ), the BND started just laundering the activity: "It's not surveillance, it's research, and we're not doing it, just paying someone else to do it!" Travis Brown, the guy that provided the libsoftiktok dox to Lorenz, is one of the people that is cashing checks directly from the BMBF,

> The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany [ https://okfn.de/en/ ], funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [ https://www.bmbf.de/en/index.html ].

( https://prototypefund.de/en/project/hatespeech-tracker/ , https://github.com/prototypefund )