Comment by coffinbirth | Hacker News Reader

Comment by coffinbirth | Hacker News Reader

Completely normal. There is a German fake online shop for heating-oil[1]. It's online for many month now (at least 8 month per domain lookup), they already scammed hundreds (if not thousands) of people, they were reported to authorities countless times. Nothing happens, authorities just don't do anything. This fake shop is allowed to continue to scam people (orders are often >1000€!). But if you dare to insult Chancellor Merz on twitter, you get fined at most 2 days later.

[1]: The scam shop is https://fastenergy24.com (the real shop is: https://www.fastenergy.de/). People are searching for "fastenergy" on google and they mistakenly land and buy on "fastenergy24.com" instead of "fastenergy.de"). I tried to report the scam site on google, but the whole process is so frustrating that I gave up.

authorities just don't do anything. [...] But if you dare to insult Chancellor Merz on twitter, you get fined at most 2 days later.

This is on you and every other German. You know what to do. As long as you are not doing it, you lack a standing to complain. Recall that governments govern at the pleasure of their people.

> You know what to do.

create a twitter profile called fastenergy24_2 and insult the chancellor?

> Recall that governments govern at the pleasure of their people.

Not when resources are being controlled by those who have the power. (For example, in Azerbaijan the Aliyevs have ruled for decades -- using oil wealth to buy everything and everyone)

It's like saying you can just refuse to use AI, when in actuality your employer will punish you for not using it.

> Not when resources are being controlled by those who have the power.

Marie Antoinette controlled a lot of things too…

People now have so many toys to be busy with.

You could report it to the domain registrar and the payment gateways.

Interestingly the fake shop is blocked by my nextdns.io setup.

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