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Telegram CEO Arrested in France Over Content Moderation Issues
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What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this post? How do you even begin to tie Hitler to the topic at hand?
Mark Zuckerberg is straight up responsible (through negligence) in facilitating ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. If the Russian Mark Zuckerberg is considered someone that should be arrested, then Mark Zuckerberg should not be allowed to walk free and continue to do immoral billionaire acts
These are the things that needs to be considered whenever we see someone "not on the West's team" get arrested.
I'm a bit torn...
One one hand I have always been diffident, when it came to Telegram...
On the other I can easily see this as an ulterior incentive to outlaw cryptography, which would be an immensely slippery slope.
The EU already tries, periodically, to ban cryptography.
They haven't succeded...yet...
One one hand I have always been diffident, when it came to Telegram...
On the other I can easily see this as an ulterior incentive to outlaw cryptography, which would be an immensely slippery slope.
The EU already tries, periodically, to ban cryptography.
They haven't succeded...yet...
You mean if you're committing a crime and messaging about it?
You mean the fight for freedom of speech on PRIVATELY OWNED platforms where there is no such thing? You don't like the terms of the site you're using for FREE, go make your own so you can say whatever you want.
Would be great if the EU would nab Musk too. We in the USA wish we were like the European Union.
Because ever since 2016 and Trump, people don't have manners, morals, ethics or guardrails. They've taken "someone's" behavior and saw it was OK to be a complete jerk online and have normalized it.
Absolutely not, he has a great responsibility to curate his site that has given him vast wealth. There is too much divisiveness at the moment and accountability is important. Otherwise, see most things on the www as fantasy unless it comes from an actual news site…notfoxofcourse ;0
How is this different from the way Signal operates? And…I am surprised to see people here happy that the Government will have complete control over privacy
8 disagree (the tyranny loving crowd) and 40 likes (the freedom loving crowd). There is hope! I am feeling it!
Right? lol. I have many friends/family that have moved to Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp only just to continue spamming me with memes and social media links. Nothing sensitive is ever shared.
Wish this much effort went into protecting landline and cellular voice calls or the ability to opt out of recording. If you've ever worked in a call center you probably know lower management and even leads have access to recordings at anytime which poses a high risk considering the amount of outsourcing these companies do. With increased WFH some have access at all times if the company doesn't have proper auditing in place.
Not much different that the owners of Backpages being convicted of promoting prostitution. Instead of policing their site to remove prostitution ads they doubled down and secretly promoted them.
Freedom is such board term and everyone has different interpretation on it.
Everyone can claim Freedom being infringed on, but that is entirely dependent on your definition on freedom. Is you freedom means you can do absolutely anything without implications or penalties? Does your freedom means you can go on say things that illegal? Is your freedom means that you can go public and promoting and selling drugs? Or is your freedom means you can go public saying anything that devalues women or immigrants?
I don't believe absoute freedom. There will always be limitations on freedom
Based on those accusations, every CEO of every social media platform can be arrested at any time. This is madness. It looks like a bunch of garbage and bogus charges.
The first duty of government is to protect their citizens. Governments are guided by law in this task and laws are different in jurisdictions worldwide. Labelling governments 'scared' is, well, I'd like to say 'is dumb' here but advocates of free speech are some of the first to go wingeing to moderators when they get push back after hurling abuse and throwing bricks at governments, so given the sensitivities of brick throwers and the abusive on here, I will settle for - misses the point.
Nope. I just checked a variety of dictionaries and not even urban dictionaries get confused over the two entirely different words and their meanings. Governments and government lawyers would certainly not be confused. No need to thank me. Just happy to help.
Pretty sure France (and much of Europe) have bigger problems than a CEO of a software application that’s done nothing wrong at all. Blame the people who abuse the platform, not simply the CEO. Seems like picking low hanging fruit because Europe refuses to get their crime, and other issues, under control. Let’s not forget Klaus Schwab and the WEF are passing down orders to Macron, Trudeau, etc for all of these things.
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If Durov was arrested for failing to moderate open discussions of criminal activity and the discussions and organizing on Telegram lead to another 9/11, would you still feel the same way?
You don't believe there's a moral obligation to do something? Are the lives of thousands of people less important than the free speech of criminals?
If the French government were more clever, then I would suspect this was a tactic to gain access to Russian comms. But given the abysmal state of their military and general inaction while a major war ravages Europe, it is probably just about moderation and all opportunities will be missed.
Numerous online businesses and websites adapt their product and services to comply with regional and country specific laws. Apple complies with regional law requirements in order to continue doing business. Technically a country like China will simply block the service but in other countries were blocking is deemed unlawful or inappropriate then sanctions, international arrest warrants and heavy fines will often bring the miscreant law breaker to heal if and when they are found guilty after due process. Some western countries still have robust systems of law while others are less so and are in danger of being made to look impotent. Clearly France and the EU are not in this league.
Interesting point. Remind me, who in the us government and special forces got arrested for allowing (unintentionally, but still) 9/11 to happen? Oh, that's right — no one!