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This is a actually pretty worrying
Why?
Telegram is not an encrypted platform, so they’re not going after him for providing end-to-end encrypted services. They’re going after him because they have full insight into what’s going on in their platform and not taking appropriate action and in some cases completely ignoring it. It’s pretty common that if you’re providing a public platform that you comply with authorities. Signal doesn’t have this problem, they have no insight into anything their user base is doing; you can’t be asked to enforce things you can’t see.
I and many tens of thousands of others use it for accurate and timely war updates. Where are we expected to go if Telegram starts censoring everything?
This could be catastrophic for the war effort online.
Edit: I should note that with the exception of illegal things, like child pornography, being made aware of to the owner of the platform they should have to act on that. That’s excluded from the ramifications this will have on important matters. Any platform should be made to act IF they are made aware of such activities.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, losing Telegram as a platform for updates would be pretty unfortunate. Is there something unique about Telegram that prevents alternatives from being used? Is it the group size? Its ubiquity?
So you want so start seeing platforms practice mass censorship? That’s what’s going to happen as they aren’t going to take on risk.
What’s worse is that spells the end of the fediverse and smaller hosted media. The admins who are bold enough to host a Lemmy or Mastodon instance are eventually going to get taken by authorities. It doesn’t matter what country they are in. Admins can’t moderate everything and there will always be content that is illegal somewhere.
Platforms are already not taking a risk and practice mass censorship. This is why you have words like “unalive” and “grape” becoming part of the American lexicon. It’s not even nefarious. Advertisers don’t want their content near negative content so platforms (without being asked by their government) auto-enforce these kind of policies.
Serious doubt. All the fediverse has to do is comply with the law when asked, it really is that simple. Telegram was specifically not complying with the law, which is why illegal content is so easy to find on there, and thus why they were being targeted.
Frankly, if you can’t keep your house in order, you’re not taking your responsibility seriously enough. Nobody’s forcing lemmy, mastodon, peertube, pixelfed, etc admins to give free accounts to more people than they can manage.
The law will then say E2EE is forbidden. And then the next step is making Telegram as a prime example to strip out E2EE because “Look how many bad guys we can catch without E2EE”.
They’ve already been trying to add backdoors to encrypted platforms already.
It’s going to be hard to ban E2EE globally. If they do propose laws to ban encryption we’ll just need to fight back. The issue with Telegram is completely unrelated to E2EE as they’ve implemented it so poorly, I wouldn’t conflate the two issues.
Telegram never was and never will be a secure messaging platform. Anyone using it as a such is an idiot.
I never said it was