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by Citizen_Lame 29 days ago
Also they are anti EU and NATO. Lot of astroturfing here.
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Those are left wing positions. Until 2023 the UK's Green Party's policy was to leave NATO, and there is still a lot of support in the part for that. When the UK's Labour party was socialist they were anti-EU. If you look at campaigned for what in the 1975 referendum on EEC membership its pretty clear: for example, Thatcher campaigned to remain, Tony Benn campaigned to leave. The remnants of the old left remain anti-EU even now.
They're neither wing. A foo-wing person could want to leave the EU because it's too bar-wing for any values of foo and bar.
> Lot of astroturfing here.

The guidelines say "assume good faith"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Also they are anti EU and NATO. Lot of astroturfing here.

At the same time, that big advertising and crony politicians are fighting to impose digital ID for all internet communications... one of the strongest privacy advocates is being attacked with non-sense.

Expect EFF to be bought or attacked.

Two things can be true.