> What is unusual is that the leaked emails are not published on the site directly. Instead, AI-generated summaries are shown, categorised and rated from Low to Critical.
Interesting choice. I don't feel like I'm at the comfort level where I would really trust any of those summaries - although I can respect the reasoning behind it.
I assume because of the high quantity they try to protect individual's privacy that way. Otherwise going by hand through each email would take years for PII and other links redaction.
The leakers might have ethical standards? Same as with snowden not dumping everything directly and letting journalists scrub it first. None of this actually applies though because everything (supposedly) got leaked in the torrent.
There are still some good hackers left. Hopefully this will send in place a party-shutdown procedure, because their voters don't care about already their apparent connections to Putin and Nazis. They have been grown on pure hate and 'protest against the system', and when they are in power, their voters will find out that they are much much more corrupt and uninterested in the public good than anything they claim the current 'establishment' would be. Exact same trajectory as pre WWII.
> Hopefully this will send in place a party-shutdown procedure, because their voters don't care about already their apparent connections to Putin and Nazis
You are talking down to up to 40% of certain areas in Germany, convinced you know better and that hey are all either nazis or too dumb to recognise they're voting for them.
Two things can be true simultaneously. As in, those AfD-voters-who-aren’t-racist-or-actual-Nazis have legitimate reasons to be angry at mainstream politicians and want meaningful change, and they’re making a bad choice to support the AfD in their desperation.
I think the voters, at least some part the voters, would be more reluctant to engage online due to this type of leak. Other than that, they'd continue with their convictions as before.
I know this is bait, but maybe their reaction should be to go and vote so that the persons who think rape should be OK (as per leaked e-mails btw) don't get to decide?
That doesn't seem comparable. The DNC and RNC were hacked by different actors.
My point was that this news is of the hack, and not of bombshell revelations from the emails themselves, which kind of indicates there's nothing there.
If you found the smoking gun, you would say "look I found a smoking gun!".
It's funny you assume they should care because there are "bad things" in it only because it's "right wing", right wing has been the normal ideology for most of human history, real democracy is/has center-right views.
Only in the last 100 years or so people have been leaning towards unreasonable and utopian fantasy beliefs.
Now, maybe you're actually right, I don't know anything about that AfD thing but I'm assuming my first sentence is correct since today's tech world is what it is.
Interesting choice. I don't feel like I'm at the comfort level where I would really trust any of those summaries - although I can respect the reasoning behind it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184270
Let's save democracy by abolishing democracy!
You are talking down to up to 40% of certain areas in Germany, convinced you know better and that hey are all either nazis or too dumb to recognise they're voting for them.
Quo Vadis, Democratia? Ask mentalgear...
Rewarding people for being victims just incentivizes frailty.
For getting hacked? No (other than judging the technical team competency).
Same applies here.
Do remember though that the RNC was also hacked at the same time as the DNC, but only one was released right before the election.
My point was that this news is of the hack, and not of bombshell revelations from the emails themselves, which kind of indicates there's nothing there.
If you found the smoking gun, you would say "look I found a smoking gun!".
Only in the last 100 years or so people have been leaning towards unreasonable and utopian fantasy beliefs.
Now, maybe you're actually right, I don't know anything about that AfD thing but I'm assuming my first sentence is correct since today's tech world is what it is.