He's handing out the IPs they asked for, so we should not trust him. He's nothing like Assange or Snowden! Also, he's a spoiled brat who went there with an escort to have a good time, even though he might get in trouble! The only respectable Durov is his brother! This narcissist is not trustworthy. I'm certain he's working for both Russia and Ukraine!
Is this enforced on all clients or just those downloaded from the App Store or Play Store? There was a difference in the past, if I remember correctly.
I don't think there is a "Show 18+ Content" in the app downloaded from the App Store, it's only hidden in the web app (activating it will also allowed NSFW content on the iOS app).
It's definitely there for me, second from the bottom in the "Data & Storage" menu. Maybe it only shows up once you've enabled that option from another app or something?
It is more reasonable to arrest the Telegram CEO for me now. I can understand that if they designed it as impossible to control, but they are controlling contents for a long time... This almost means they permit these contents in their community.
Telegram host thousands (or more, not like I keep count) of blatantly cybercriminal groups and refuses to take them down. Due to nature of my work I have access to a few new telegram channels used to leak people's data every day, and telegram refuses to do anything with it. Same goes for channels where cybercriminals organise their activities.
Telegram is one of the main sources of disinformation in my country. Known fake news channels are never closed. It's also a big market for illegal data.
Telegram hosted a leak channel for the data stolen from my country's government for many months before finally agreeing to take it down. Then a clone of this channel was created, and it exists to this day.
Tell me more about how telegram does... anything at all to moderate its content.
I've seen a lot of wild shit in Telegram channels. It's weird seeing people defend Telegram, but I guess that's American first amendment fundamentalism/fetishism. Even terrorist speech should be protected, apparently?
True. Among all noise over Durov being harassed by France it may seem to uninformed that this is some new development, but it isn't.
The first time I've noticed some "extremist" (I mean, I don't necessarily think they merited being taken down, but I need to find some word to communicate the idea that it was "serious business", like, you know, discussing firearms, being largest free library, being pro-Trump or COVID-skeptic, some spicy things) channels being taken down was January 2021, right after Biden came to office and all the fuzz that accompanied these events. Probably, it also happened before, but it was the first time I really noticed it happening at scale. Like, enough for me to finally learn that Telegram isn't some "old free Internet" kinda thing anymore.
And lately it even can be about forcing bloggers to delete something as mild as fancams from some sports-event a big TV-channel has all rights to. And when that happened everybody was angry at that TV-channel, not at Telegram, because Telegram abiding if somebody large enough is insistent enough is nothing that isn't unexpected. I'd just say they are kinda lax if nobody large enough is insistent enough, and it was like that for quite some time.
