r_clandestino | 89 points
Why is there so much interest in pizzagate in Finland (specifically Helsinki)?pokrutin | 14 points
I think it has something to do with the fact that last year in Finland there was big media hassle about pizzerias/restaurants selling pizzas under 6 euros and police wanted citizens to report those places and the whole thing was also called #pizzagate. It was allegedly about taxes and such but who knows
Toppo | 6 points
Yea, this is it. The police had a big campaign about tax avoidance in restaurants, how pizzas under 6 euros as profitable are impossible, so restaurants with that cheap pizzas must be avoiding taxes. The police wanted people to report these pizza places to the police.
I think #pizzagate was used to mock the police campaign, as meanwhile other tax avoidance and tax planning causes hundreds of millions if not over a billion euros of losses to the government, and still the focus was cheap pizzas.
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r_clandestino | 1 points
Publicly available. Easy to search.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=pizzagate
inbetweentime | 1 points
Unless it's going viral in Finland - which some users here would likely be able to confirm (and help us on how to achieve this in the US) - something is definitely up with that.
jtr27 | 2 points
Finfag here. This is seriously widespread here. We have large discussions about this onmany different chans.
Ddtatfbacb | 22 points | Nov 16 2016 00:36:33
Could this have anything to do with VPNs and proxies?
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r_clandestino | 15 points | Nov 16 2016 00:47:54
That was my suspicion too.
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r_clandestino | 6 points | Nov 16 2016 01:06:42
It just doesn't add up for me. Why are the requests coming from Finland (100% more than U.S., not just a little marginal thing), but during U.S.A. business hours? And that seems like it would be a shitty VPN, if they all end at the same node. Or maybe I just expected more from anonymizing tools.
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plagr | 9 points | Nov 16 2016 01:39:21
I suspect quite a few vpns are actually CIA or NSA shell companies for intercepting data. It's like telling the drug dealers here's a safe place to sell pot.
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wizl0rd | 2 points | Nov 16 2016 01:00:44
Could be, but could be that the OP is on to something...keep digging!
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Ddtatfbacb | 2 points | Nov 16 2016 01:02:59
this is true! :)
Judging by the spikes in it I'd say it could be a VPN/Proxy thang, but I am certainly no expert and if there is another reason found I'd love to hear it!
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