I went looking for a source and found the official sanction, seems it’s from May 2025. This post is inaccurate at best, Russian anti-EU propaganda at worst.

Dogru is listed as being a Turkish national with a Turkish address, so not a EU citizen according to the sanction at least.

The official reasoning is pasted here. It’s mainly about him being part of the Russian propaganda machine, which is worth a sanction in my eyes, but the Gaza stuff is definitely worrying to bring up on a Russian sanctions list.

Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which is a media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.

Guerilla marketing?

I am! Tell me who it is, and I’ll kick their butts.

QC has well-founded expected applications within chemistry, factorisation and optimization. Anything else is hyperbole at this point.

No. But I know true love, so I’d say you’re wrong.

No serious quantum computer scientist or industry person would claim QC “solves everything”. Who is “they”?

Or you could embrace the vision, play on Hardcore with no map marker or compass, accept that travelling through war-torn lands is dangerous, feel the rush of galloping through the woods knowing a Cuman ambush could set you back 30 minutes, accepting that quests can fail, accepting that people will react to you stinking like blood and horse.

Actually turns out the blue zone thing is pretty dubious.

Don’t worry, linear algebra is also useful for other, less famous stuff.

Sorry, I just wanted to make sure what your argument is. I’m very interested to hear it, just don’t want to assume what you’re trying to say.

Apologies if I appear aggressive or stupid. I assure you I am neither :)

This is a correct quote. Is there a point you’d like to make?

It does. And yes, it is. The logistics and pricing are very different. For one, by shutting down the letter system they can nix the mail drop-off boxes that were all over the place.

How is it not the opposite? The only reason we can do it is because of the reasons we’re unlike the US. Centralised, digitized, with a trusted state and a coherent public sector.

If the US were to shut down their postal system, it would be to weaken the public system and enrich some billionaire by holding critical infrastructure hostage.

In Denmark we’re doing it because we’ve invested so much in a comprehensive national digital post system, which is so good that the volume of letters is so vanishingly small that even a private actor will barely be able to turn a profit from delivering them.

Sure.

I thought you were talking about the closing of our postal system.

I don’t think 95% is right, but in any case, when does it then stop being critical infrastructure? At 99% digital correspondence? 100%? Never?

Must we maintain a working national postal service, with all its employees and logistics, just in case?

At some point, the relevance of the system becomes so low, and the cost so high, that it doesn’t make sense to maintain. Imagine still maintaining horse feeding stations along the roads.

I agree, the point of post isn’t to be profitable. But when it’s no longer critical infrastructure, and the state can’t maintain it without extensive losses, then we should privatise it. If the private sector can’t maintain it with a profit, and it remains non-critical, we should shut it down.

We really haven’t. This is the opposite of American culture. Our healthy, centralised public system has evolved beyond physical mail, and there is no reason for the collective to carry the cost of an irrelevant infrastructure.

This can be done responsibly because we have spent decades developing a public, secure, national digital alternative

Denmark is highly digitized. Mail is no longer a critical infrastructure, no need for the state to maintain it.

To be fair, it’s way better than 50/50, but of course no guarantees still.

The legal framework for Greenland to declare independence has been in place for decades.

They’re currently a self-ruling territory that is part of the Danish realm by choice. Not saying that forgives old colonialist crimes, but it hasn’t been a Danish colony for a while now.