Comment on Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

• bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By that logic we should arrest all Car company CEOs for being complicit in crime lol, it’s not exactly his choice what people do with his product

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really comparable because the illegal content is hosted and distributed through his servers. Which is why most sites are moderated to a degree. This dude basically said “fuck off” whenever takedowns were issued. It’s hardly a surprise that he’s been arrested.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Illegal content is distributed through snail mail and telephones too, but those are common carriers so they aren’t liable. Why should Telegram be any different?

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      • Sgn@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So if I lease a car it’s comparable? Rent a car, commit a crime, boom — rental company is on the hook. Moronic.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The rental company, on the other hand, is more than willing to turn you in to not be considered liable. Which they probably would be if they impeded an investigation.

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But, have you noticed that after committing a crime, criminals and felons usually escape… using a car?

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      • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is more like arresting the getaway driver, not the car manufacturer.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really comparable because the illegal content is hosted and distributed through his servers.

      landlords should be prosecuted for crimes commited by criminals in houses they rented out to the tenants.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If the landlord knows it’s happening and let it happen then yeah, that’s what being complicit is all about

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      • Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean depending on the crimes, yeah. If a child porn ring runs out of your building and you’re alerted to its continued existence, and the police are asking who lives there and you don’t tell them and keep renting to them? Yeah.

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      • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People need houses to live. Taking stuff off your own server doesn’t throw someone out onto the streets and leave them to the elements. Come on lol

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The criminals ate bread before the heist, better round up all the grain farmers

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  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Next they’ll charge oil executives for damage to the planet, I’m for it.

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• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next they’ll make encrypting your own files illegal. Absolutely preposterous. Do better police work!

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• Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So your pro arresting gun and ammo manufacturing company CEOs?

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  • gaael@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m all for it. Time to end the guns supply chain.

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• MrSqueezles@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next up, outlawing pencil erasers and flammable paper

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• DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh for fucks sake I’m so tired of this bullshit.

  Governments nowadays are constantly acting like a tech platform has a responsibility eliminate privacy for users because if they have privacy, then they can’t be tracked. It’s infuriating.

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