How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
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Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal.
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I have no idea what’s going on with all of this but the news said that he was arrested for child pornography, so in my opinion if there was a hundred other things that he did right this one bad thing out does them all if that is what he did.

The French government said that Telegram is being used to distribute illegal material like child pornography. He is not accused of distributing it himself.

He’s accused of tolerating such distribution even after being alerted of the fact so, yes, he’s accused of distributing it. For an online platform “we didn’t know about it because we don’t moderate proactively” is a valid defence, “authorities told us about it but we didn’t feel like doing anything about it because can’t be bothered / frozen peaches” isn’t.

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Maybe don’t blindly trust the news?

Where I am, the news said:

  • “Telegram is a social network” (it isn’t)
  • “that allows terrorism from Russia and Iran” (it’s used by Russian and Iranian oppositors)
  • “drug trafficking” (because it’s encrypted, I guess)
  • “fraud” (scams are also part of email and the web)
  • “money laundering” (…what?)
  • “piracy” (sigh…)
  • “and distribution of child pornography.” (so does email)
  • “It doesn’t honor removal requests from the film/music industry organizations” (that’s piracy twice)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse

Terrorists, pedophiles/child molesters, organized crime like drug dealers, intellectual property pirates, and money launderers are cited commonly

Do we have a BINGO?

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