Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

A Danish privacy activist says police smashed in his door, cut his power, and grabbed his cameras after he posted what he coyly called his “two favorite numbers” — which he later said were the prime minister’s personal ID number and phone number. That alone was enough to send the comments section into full popcorn mode. One side saw a chilling scene: masked officers allegedly heading straight for the breaker box so they couldn’t be filmed, which critics called creepy, calculated, and exactly the kind of state overreach privacy campaigners warn about. Some even started swapping survival tips, saying if you fear a raid, you’d better have battery backups and hidden cameras. Very normal internet stuff.

But the other side was having absolutely none of the martyr narrative. Several commenters slammed the “privacy activist” label, arguing this was less noble dissident, more serial provocateur. The biggest bombshell reaction? People asking the obvious question: isn’t this just doxxing the prime minister? Others went further, bringing up older accusations and saying the real scandal isn’t the raid — it’s that he allegedly targeted a leader already living at a secret address for security reasons. That split turned the thread into a full-on morality brawl: police overreach vs. reckless harassment.

And then came the dark humor. One commenter basically wrote the action-movie version of the problem: masked men burst in, no warning, what if the homeowner thinks they’re criminals? Another summed up the entire saga as Denmark’s version of “rules for thee, not for me.” In other words: everyone agrees this is bad — they just can’t agree on who the villain is.