Good so. Telegram should die.
CEO of Telegram messaging app arrested in France, say French media
Submitted 8 months ago by True@lemy.lol to technology@beehaw.org
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AsudoxDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
True@lemy.lol 8 months ago
Why?
A lot of pirated content is distributed using telegram.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Because it’s a bad messenger which rolled their own encryption (a thing that should bever be done) and yet it’s still only in one-one chats in very few contexts.
They have lied constantly about various things including never having ads etc, they just silently updated that they would and expected people to be fine with it.
Sure, piracy is okay, but there’s lots of other bad things that go on it which is immoral and unethical and they don’t care enough to do anything about it.
In short: It is not at all a private messenger and lacks any type of good moderation.
sculd@beehaw.org 8 months ago
You realize there are so many right wing extremists there that they would have been banned had they been using other services?
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Also terabytes of child porn that they won’t take down.
0x815@feddit.org 8 months ago
In a video posted on Xitter, a Russian soldier who defected to Ukraine says his unit were using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet via an IP address in Latvia. They were paying for the subscription over Telegram.
0x815@feddit.org 8 months ago
Elon Musk Urges To Free Telegram Chief Pavel Durov After His Arrest In Paris — (Archived link)
The Telegram chief executive, Pavel Durov, was arrested by the French Police in Paris this morning, and the X owner, Elon Musk, has reacted to his arrest. Musk shared a snippet from one of Durov’s interviews where he was talking about X. While sharing this snippet, Musk wrote, “#FreePavel.” […]
According to Russia’s TASS state news agency, the Russian embassy in France is taking “immediate steps” to clarify this situation […]
By operating from the United Arab Emirates, Telegram has managed to avoid the content moderation laws that Western countries are imposing on major platforms to combat illegal content.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
This is such an interesting development. I bet a lot of dirty laundry is about to be aired.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Possibly, but I wouldn’t put it past France to have decided that anything they don’t have a backdoor into or subpoena power over must be killed.