alt Hacker News@dang This post is an Ad for unofficial merch, profiting from an ongoing news story. Should we change the URL ?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/speech... https://tech.eu/2026/01/20/the-european-commission-launches-...
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dewey • today at 2:02 PM
That's not someone profiting from the news story. It's the website of the group of people who were pushing that, talking to the EU and lobbying for it for a while.
It's even linked on the website of the organizers behind it https://klinger.io and https://www.linkedin.com/company/eu-inc/about/
jcattle • today at 2:16 PM
This is the official page of the EU-INC lobby group.
This submission originally did link to https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/speech..., but was later changed to this. Or two submissions (one for each URL) was linked/merged. But something used to link to the press release rather than this website, FWIW.
Also, about reducing it down to "an Ad for unofficial merch", isn't this literally the grassroot movement that led to what was announced today? Or am I getting the relationship wrong? The domain in question was registered 2024-10-09.