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Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For a long time, Telegram has acted as if it's above the law

What law? That the government can read and censor your private messages? Then good, and we should want it to stay that way!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There are plenty of laws that require platforms to police publically accessible content. From SMS filters, ISPs are required to have, to CSAM reporting chat platforms like Discord have to do.

Government can't read or police E2EE messages, even if they want to. Telegram just doesn't care about that.