• chiisana
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    2624 days ago

    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
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      524 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        324 days ago

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

        • @rottingleaf
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          224 days ago

          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.

            • @rottingleaf
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              124 days ago

              You are, ahem, not decrypting it when getting history and not encrypting it when uploading files. That should be sufficient.

              Anyway, look at TG Desktop sources. They are crap, but in general it’s clear what happens there. At least that’s how I remember it.

      • chiisana
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        424 days ago

        I don’t know how they manage their platform — I don’t use it, so it’s irrelevant for me personally — was this proven anywhere in a court of law?