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Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

When the West wants to censor the internet its always either child protection or national security.thats brought up as the reason.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (12 children)

The west

Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I mean... Yes?

They don't need to lie to sell their oppression. They just do it because they're authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LOL, this is a joke right? Authoritarian countries don't lie about reasons for doing things? LMAO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well when Russia blocked Telegram it was just because Telegram refused to send them their users data. Simple. Now France seem to be sentencing a person to live in prison because Telegram still refuses to send them their users data. But they claim it's for the children. Same shit, different excuse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but what the person I replied to is claiming is that e.g. North Korea doesn't lie to its people about reasons it does things, which is, of course, bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They didn't claim it though.

They said that all governments do some terrible things but in case of the governments that claim they are not authoritarian they pretext those things with something that will make the public not think they are doing a terrible thing.

In case of restricting Internet freedom or invading other countries it's usually "but think of children".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They claimed that authoritarian governments do not do this since they have no reason.

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