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Further down the article explains:

> Joachim himself declined to provide his last name or workplace because his employer does not want to be associated with the campaign. POLITICO has verified his identity. Joachim said his employer has no commercial interest in the legislation, and he alone paid the costs associated with running the website.



I wouldn't be surprised if he was still targeted by the people and companies lobbying for the law.


Yeah, there were 119 people born in 1995 with first name Joachim, and 123 in 1994[0]. There is a pretty good chance that there is currently only one 30-years old Joachim employed as a software engineer in Aalborg.

[0]: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-ti...


Could be a German immigrant. I don’t know much about Danish naming conventions, but I imagine Joachim is more prevalent in Germany.


Dunno, but there aren't enough German immigrants to do much to the statistics anyways.


Gosh I hope Joachim isn't his real name.


You can't fire people in Denmark for having the wrong opinions.


Work is more than being fired or not.


True, but having worked for quite a few software companies in that city, most probably agree with him. Hell, he'd probably get job offers.

But I don't blame him, the Danish minister of justice who is pushing for this bill is a complete nut job. So technically it go hurt him if he needs a security clearance with Danish police or military intelligence.




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