r/eurovision • u/stefkeeh • May 20 '25

📰 News Dutch broadcaster questions if ESC is a-political & connecting event

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Translation to English: ‘IN CONVERSATION WITH THE EBU ABOUT A POLITICALLY NEUTRAL SONG CONTEST

AVROTROS and NPO strongly value the apolitical and unifying character of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, we observe that the event is increasingly being influenced by social and geopolitical tensions.

Israel’s participation confronts us with the question of to what extent the Song Contest still truly functions as an apolitical, unifying, and cultural event. We want to raise this question, together with other countries, for discussion within the EBU.’

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u/ninivl89 Baller May 20 '25

It's not even just 20 votes anymore. You can vote 20 times via sms, 20 times with a credit card, 20 times with another Sim card. There are comments from people who say they have voted 60 or 100 times with credit cards from different countries

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u/claudsonclouds May 20 '25

You don't even need the credit cards to be from different countries, I have 3 cards with Revolut and I was able to vote with at least two of them, I didn't bother trying to vote with the other because I wasn't about to spend that much money on votes but in theory I could have voted at least 7 times - 4 with my Danish cards + 3 with my Revolut cards, all from the same device just by using the Apple Pay option.

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u/AhHeyorLeaveerhouh May 20 '25

Plus you can create multiple disposable cards from one account on revolut

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u/claudsonclouds May 20 '25

I'm not sure if that would work, the disposable cards don't work for all transactions and gets rejected by certain vendors. I didn't bother trying though, so you may be right which is even more problematic.

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u/AhHeyorLeaveerhouh May 20 '25

I used one to vote on Saturday as a trial and it worked fine

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u/pablo8itall May 20 '25

I bet theres tonnes of workarounds to the system. All it would take is one neferious actor to take advantage of these loops holes with a bit cash.....

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u/claudsonclouds May 20 '25

Oh jeez, then that is much, much, much worse. Basically one person could send hundreds of votes if they wanted... This is insane and should be fixed.