Prosecutors in Stockholm launch preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage, hours after Germany dubs cable failure part of a ‘hybrid operation’

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Swedish authorities say they have detected a Chinese ship moving near two telecoms cables that failed within hours of each other on the Baltic Sea bed in recent days.

Prosecutors in Stockholm have launched a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage, hours after Germany dubbed the cable failure part of a “hybrid operation”.

On Sunday morning at about 10am, Swedish authorities registered problems with a data cable under the Baltic Sea from the Öland island to Lithuania. At 4am on Monday, telecoms operators in Finland and Germany reported problems with another cable called C-Lion-1.

Both cables were damaged in the Swedish economic zone, prompting prosecutors in Stockholm to take the investigation lead.

  • ashley0_0@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    ever since i started using lemmy all I’ve heard is bad things about that instance so I don’t understand why we don’t just defederate from them? This is a genuine question to anyone with the answer, thanks!

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I started there. It’s tiring when every international political discussion boils done to China/Russia good because NATO bad. .ml is subtle about it and does a lot of word game shit you see in right wing media. They maintain enough plausible deniability to remain federated. The defederate instances were the one using slurs.

      • 0x815OPEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        Yes, they are more subtle in parroting propaganda, but they block everyone who is only slightly critical of China/Russia. They are the same people.

    • 0x815OPEnglish
      41·
      6 hours ago

      @ashley0_0@lemmy.blahaj.zone This puzzles me, too. That instance is a cheap propaganda instance that has been banned by Reddit some time ago for a good reason. I don’t know why we don’t defederate.

      • federal reverseMEnglish
        13·
        4 hours ago

        It’s the instance admined by the authors of Lemmy itself. The official forum is !lemmy@lemmy.ml. It’s a bit disingenuous to ask to defederate from them, unless we want the already tense relationship with the authors of the software to break entirely.

        • TanteRegenbogenEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Well Lemmy is open source, isn’t it? So someone could just make a fork of it, can’t they?

          • federal reverseMEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Of course they could but that’s not free. Forked projects are a lot of work. Maybe it would be easier to go for a different software, such as kbin. Or maybe the defederation goes over just fine and arrangements are found easily. I don’t know. My point is there’s a social component to defederating that’s likely a bit bigger than just shutting out Russia/China enjoyers.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      I feel used to the internet being full of stupid nonsense, so I just ignore .ml’s share, and in a way it’s a refreshing balance to the usual genre from e.g. .world and Reddit. Usually it’s either run-of-the-mill echo chamber or respectful discussion.

      But there’s lots of good stuff on .ml too. I’m glad to still be federated.