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Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II

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The owner of the company is a very well known young entrepreneur (must be around 25) in Spain. He introduced himself back in 2015 as a genuine case of self-made man with a very difficult childhood. He spent all his teenage years in a reception centre. At the age of 19 he started Eliminalia. When he was 23 he built a small empire of different companies ranging from online marketing to fertility centers and surrogacy (the connection to Ukraine and Russia probably has to do with this businesses).

This kind of profiles attract a lot of attention, and different media outlets have been investigating him and his companies. The impersonation of the EU commission was front page of one of the largest online newspapers and broadly spread across social networks... so I guess Eliminalia is going to be very busy the coming weeks.

I can’t find any article in English, but this thread in twitter in Spanish can give you some insights about him: https://twitter.com/ottoreuss/status/1349359908232294400?s=2...

Ouch. I had erased this guy of my mind. I remember some of the stuff but couldn't remember all the weird and dark stuff around him (like the child abuser and all that...)

I tried to be as aseptic as possible and let the reader learn by himself about the guy... I don’t want to be sued, as he usually does when somebody says something he dislike.

Yikes. I understand.

> The following 16 URLs have been used to clone legit media sites, back-date articles and later file fake DMCA complains to Google

What are the consequences for abusing DMCA? Should they be stiffened?

There's little recourse to fake DMCA complaints. The reason the DMCA exists was to placate content owners who wanted a way to get infringements taken offline quickly. There does need to be something done about fake complaints - this is especially affecting creators, journalists (I'm including small time bloggers and vloggers in this group) and others who can't afford an army of lawyers to protect a small revenue stream. The problem is that it will be hard to get anything done because bigger media companies will loby to get even more power than they have today.

Agree, DMCA works just fine when large sums of money are not at stake.

there is a societal cost to fake takedowns to silence speech, even when large sums of money aren't at stake.

Apparently, Google has taken down several pages and URLs following DMCA takedown requests.[1]

[1] https://mashable.com/article/google-fake-dmca-takedown-reque...

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