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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Cool, but I think this is exceptionally stupid. There will be cameras, Id badges, emails, all with an easy to get warrant. I guess DE might make it more difficult but I think dumb none the less.
Personally I admire someone who is prepared to publicly take some personal risk in order to fight white supremacists.
This is an event that takes privacy very seriously, where it's not uncommon for speakers to present evidence of crimes, and where a large antifa-flag hangs over the entrance. I think they'll be fine.
The other two on stage where journalists, and while I'm not familiar with German law, that likely limits the police's ability to try to get to Root through them.
If reasonable precations were taken, there will not be any evidence directly tying the person on stage to the crime, and even if there was, them being in costume leaves a lot of room for reasonable doubt about who it actually was.
I had the exact same thoughts when I first started seeing this story pop up on my news feeds. Like, this person will see the inside of a prison cell for this, especially given the type of content hosted and the current make-up of the Justice Dept. What they did was, quite literally, cyber-terrorism. Hope it was worth it, I guess, given that these sites are all back online now like it never happened.
Are you sure theyre back up? The article says otherwise.
Depends. This happened at a German conference and I assume that this person is most likely German as well. Probably shouldn't think about getting anywhere close to the US though.
There's still the possibility of facing prosecution in Germany. Not sure how probable that is though.