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.
  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    19·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand how authoritarian leaning conservatives and free speech absolutists align most of the time.

  • Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 months ago

    and an attack on encrypted messaging

    lmao. It’s barely encrypted and what little of it that is (one-to-one DMs) have never been audited in a way where Telegram haven’t just either ignored the results or moved the goalposts.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • IllNess@infosec.pub
      31·
      3 months ago

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

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      8·
      3 months ago

      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?