• BombOmOm
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    541 year ago

    It’s pretty understandable. Many companies do not want to use their platform to give terrorists a voice.

  • @afunkysongaday
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    401 year ago

    Title is a bit misleading. Those channels are not blocked on Android in general, but only on the play store version of telegram. Download from F-Droid instead and that’s that.

          • @avater
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            Yes. Same cunts

              • @avater
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                21 year ago

                No, of course not? Did I get the question wrong?

                • @[email protected]
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                  01 year ago

                  Someone said they were okay with these accounts being banned. You replying “it’s the principle of the matter” made it sound like you were disagreeing with those bans in free speech or anti-“corporate” censorship like many other commenters were saying. So I asked if you were okay with them banning Nazi accounts, which you agreed with so maybe I misunderstood?

        • @REdOG
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          11 year ago

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    • @REdOG
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      21 year ago

      No one does except those in power.

      The show must go on and “I’m” the star. - vote me

  • @Squizzy
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    191 year ago

    Not sure how I feel about this, Google isn’t the law but it is their platform…but the app is the platform that hosts them and they haven’t been forced to remove any other groups.

    • @seejur
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      151 year ago

      On the other hand Facebook doing nothing literally spiralled Myanmar into ethnic cleansing.

      So sometimes a bit of moderation is better

    • burchalka
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      91 year ago

      Same here. I think censorship is bad - but looks like Google really want to distance themselves from anything Hamas related, and even Telegram bosses who didn’t bend for Russian government pressure (couple of years ago there was an attempt to control or block Telegram there) prefer to stay away from it…

    • fiat_lux
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      They’re also legally liable for content on their app store, which is one of the big (maybe biggest) reasons they bother to monitor it so carefully. Their app store moderation is genuinely heavy-handed at the best of times, but it makes sense for them to distance themselves from Telegram in this case.

      It also entirely makes sense that Telegram has only limited their changes to Android as a response. Apple customers are where the money is at anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    This is just another parameter that will now be built into future chat software; no high level control over channels or groups by any central authority. The Internet will route around all obstacles.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    131 year ago

    They shouldn’t submit to arbitrary censorship, even if I also disagree with Hamas, Google could do it to anyone they disagree with. Telegram should move to (or at least also be on, with an uncensored version) F-Droid.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    This is why I don’t use a messaging app that allows non-participants to control my conversations.

    • @smolyeet
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      41 year ago

      🙄 way to be over dramatic

  • blazera
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    -131 year ago

    The world is telling palestinians to just give up and die

    • Jeena
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      201 year ago

      Hamas does not equal Palestinians.

      • blazera
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        Right, so get rid of hamas so theres no more obstacle to exterminating palestinians.

      • blazera
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        Who is stopping palestinians being exterminated?

        • DarkThoughts
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          Certainly not Hamas, since they’re responsible for what is happening now.

        • roguetrick
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          If you think Hamas is an effective security for Gaza and the West Bank, you’re outta your mind. It’s the existential threat of becoming enough of a pariah to be forced to trade with North Korea and rely on the Kibbutz economy again. Can’t really maintain tritium stockpiles that way.

          Hamas is as effective security for Gaza as Likud is for Israel. It would be better off for both parties if each fucked off.

          • blazera
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            Okay, who else is gonna stop the extermination if not hamas?

        • @Djehngo
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          41 year ago

          The threat of international condemnation and the less hawkish members of the Israeli government and electorate.

          Predictably the rate at which civilians in Gaza are bombed by Israel went up not down after Hamas’ acts of terrorism the other week.

          Even if you believe that the Israeli government is ontologically evil; serving them up causus belli to bomb and potentially invade Palestinian lands does not constitute “preventing Palestinians from being exterminated”, rather it actively helps them hastens the process

          • blazera
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            The international community supports the extermination