French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO
French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO
www.theverge.com French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO
Pavel Durov could be indicted in the morning.
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What is the charge? For operating a messaging platform? A succulent private messaging platform?
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Allowing criminal activity to go unmoderated on the platform. Including but not limited to fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime and promotion of terrorism.
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Sadly, the guy in that video passed away recently.
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true but if its truly end to end encrypted it cant be moderated.
between this and mega its clear they want your files easy to reach and access, privacy and security be damned.
the internet should be free for the same reason we have the 2nd amendment - its necessary for exposing and opposing tyranny.
so kill telegram and watch criminal orgs and militant groups just spin up their own servers or use encrypted radio or just encrypt messages themselves to send through any other platform.
its the cops and feds job to investigate these people, they didnt need a fucking all seeing AI to do it in the prior century and they dont now.
i mean seriously what happened to sting operations? its so damn easy to catch predators n shit on discord, and these telegrams are easy enough to join. do actual detective work smfh .
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ahhh, I see you know your digital crimes well!
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I hope you realise that the comment you replied to is really just a reference to the Succulent Chinese Meal video.
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I understand this reference
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The reference on wikipedia, for my fellow people out of the loop
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Most unexpected reference I've ever seen.
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See, this is a tough one. Privacy concerns are legitimate, but also, when people keep reminding that Meta was a key player in acts of terror and genocide what is often not said is that a lot of it happened over Whatsapp groups and direct messages, as in India and Burkina Faso. Direct messaging apps are also social media.
I don't have a solution for this. It's a mess of an issue and honestly, I don't know that I trust anybody with a strong, aggressive position one way or the other.
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Its actually because telegram isnt encrypted, and the ceo didnt reply to takedown requests of cp and drug exchanges
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Direct messaging apps are also social media.
How do you define social media in a way that includes DMs but doesn't include basically all communication?
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One thing that has always felt different about Telegram in particular was the large, public groups. I’ve never used WhatsApp but you can’t really get the same virality on something like Signal or plain SMS/RCS/etc. If you can widely share “rich” media, it kinda fits the bill for social media imo.
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I think 30+ people died directly in India due to fake message rumors on WhatsApp last year. The rumours were basically of child kidnapping rings doing the rounds and if someone new wandered in into a secluded community, they would be suspected and in rare cases, killed. Since India saw an exceptional implosion in smartphone usage in recent years and WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform there, it's a travesty that it happened.
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Don't blame the messenger.
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But by default the comms aren't end-to-end encrypted. Isn't desiderable that criminals use telegram rather than signal?
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Not being end-to-end encrypted is meaningless to law enforcement if Telegram refuses to turn over the chat contents (which they do). Law enforcement can't just eavesdrop on the conversation without Telegram's cooperation. The chat contents are still secured by TLS from the user's device to the Telegram servers.
Smart professional criminals rarely use Telegram for this stuff anyway. There's WhatsApp and plenty of other popular platforms of end-to-end encrypted
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Smart criminal use Briar or Signal, not WhatsApp, lol, which totally has a backdoor for the government.
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if Telegram refuses to turn over the chat contents (which they do)
Source?
Law enforcement can't just eavesdrop on the conversation without Telegram's cooperation
Why do you think Roskomnadzor gave up their blockage plans in 2018? And then made their own official government channels? "It's technically difficult for us" has never stopped Roskomnadzor before.
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Seriously? Arresting messaging app CEO for content of people's chats? I guess pigs are pissed, that they can't crack the encryption.
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*glowies
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You don't need to crack down encryption for most of the platform. There are people in open groups who sometimes post illegal stuff.
If someone posts that they want to see person XY dead, it should not make a difference whether it's on Reddit, Lemmy or in an open Telegram group..
The least we can expect is some kind of moderation like on Reddit or here.
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On one hand, that's awful and Telegram should continue to exist totally unmoderated.
Oh the other, anybody rich enough to arrive in a private jet belongs in jail for being a total psychopath.
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He was travelling from Azerbaijan, where he had been meeting with Putin. There is a theory that he knew he would be arrested and chose to go there to avoid retaliation and falling out of a window.
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Putin leaving his bunker?
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Liberté égalité no dissente
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you know Telegram is secure when governments are trying to arrest the founder.
The French kidnapping of Pavel Durov is a huge violation of human rights.
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That doesn't make it secure. (It isn't)
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Alternatively: It is not (and generally not even encrypted) and he just happened to be in contempt.
Plenty of military-oriented and shady-business going in in there.
There's still the possibility that the authorities wanted to go after specific someones with a proper warrant and Durov blocked it. No country on earth goes for that.
We'll get to know the charges soon enough.
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During my time as an amateur disinfo researcher I found that ALL the fascist groups are on Telegram. Also all the antivaxers, qanon nuts, maga, conspiracy theorists the lot. One big fash melting pot.
Telegram needs to be shut down, years ago.
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Telegram needs to be shut down, years ago.
This is textbook fascism.
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It's okay to not tolerate hatred, fascists and misinformation.
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.
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And you think that's only on Telegram, there's also groups on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram... are they going to arrest Mark Zuckerberg?
If Telegram is shutdown today, those groups will move to other platforms, it could be also Lemmy.
Is not about ilegal activities, but privacy, you can have a private (E2EE) or one where governments watch all private messages.
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Also, furries. They like using the stickers.
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literally if anyone else did stickers half as well as telegram
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Keep them bottled up at least
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So, instead of fixing the cesspool we just designate a place for them? Why not just going after the ones committing crimes and state that big public groups must have moderation for basic shit? (Like no death threats and that kind of "moderation", not a "I don't like your opinions)
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