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EPO Funds Lukashenko's Techwashing PR Stunts

Video download link | md5sum 60824ce7e9aea7d0bb9444a6845cae8f Minsk and HTP Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Techwashing by the Belarusian regime is funded by the EPO's money; what if EPO stakeholders knew about it... what would they do or say?

THE SECOND part of the series (it had started yesterday) was published less than an hour before recording this video. The video contains more personal thoughts, such as a discussion about the legal status of Minsk's HTP and the nature of today's so-called 'apps' (they're designed to act more like malware, or at least have the potential to become malware though over-the-air modifications).



A lot of Belarusian people may be lovely and sophisticated people, but they're governed by a dictator who kills a lot of neighbours and helps another dictator. We've not missed the irony of EPO dictators like António Campinos claiming moral high ground (over Eurasian territories) while his buddy Benoît Battistelli outsources EPO operations to Lukashenko's "pet project" in Belarus.

Lukashenko: You don't need to be smart; If you're Techwashing with the EPO's help (and money)
Stay woke, sir!

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