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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France (www.reuters.com)

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (26 children)

[French media] said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Europe defending its citizens against the tech giants, I'm sure.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Safe harbour equivalent rules should apply, no? That is, the platforms should not be held liable as long as the platform does not permit for illegal activities on the platform, offer proper reporting mechanism, and documented workflows to investigate + act against reported activity.

It feels like a slippery slope to arrest people on grounds of suspicion (until proven otherwise) of lack of moderation.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Telegram does moderation of political content they don't like.

Also Telegram does have means to control whatever they want.

And sometimes they also hide certain content from select regions.

Thus - if they make such decisions, then apparently CP and such are in their interest. Maybe to collect information for blackmail by some special services (Durov went to France from Baku, and Azerbaijan is friendly with Israel, and Mossad is even suspected of being connected to Epstein operation), maybe just for profit.

[–] RandomlyRight@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any links/sources about this? I'm not saying you’re wrong, I’m just interested

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, but they do sometimes delete channels for gore and such. I remember a few Azeri channels being banned for this during/after 2020 war.

About having means - well, with server-side stored unencrypted everything it's not a question.

About hiding channels per region by governmental requests - I've heard about that on Lemmy.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

Where did you get that the data on the servers are not encrypted?

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