By this logic, the US Navy should also get into legal trouble for creating the Tor project.
Selective enforcement of law is a tool of oppression. Happens all the time in oppressive regimes.
Comment on Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months agoAs the CEO he should be responsible for anything he was facilitating as part of his business, and that would include crimes committed using telegram that he was aware of and both did nothing to remove from his service and made it harder for law enforcement to prosecute. You know, like how a warehouse owner who knowingly sells space to pedos and does what he can to keep the police from searching the warehouee is complicit.
There are some circumstances where they are unaware or only take halfhearted measures, but in this case it looks like he is being investigated for actively working to enable criminals, including pedos. As the head executive, he doesn’t have to do it personally if he is directing staff to make it happen.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?”
-Dimension20
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
only take halfhearted measures
Like what exactly?
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
Moderation that doesn’t do anything. Have terms and conditions that aren’t enforced. General ‘we care’ things that aren’t actually effective.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do you moderate something you can’t know about?
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
I assume that proving they can’t know about it would be part of the defense if it goes to trial.
obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
I’m sorry, but it’s a private messaging app! Not even the owners are supposed to know what is going on in the chats. It’s not a moderation situation - I don’t know if he rejected a request to ban accounts, but it isn’t how things are supposed to be.
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t the main problem that most people don’t use the E2E encrypted chat feature on Telegram, so most of what’s going on is not actually private and Telegram does have the ability to moderate but refuses to (and also refuses to cooperate)?
Something like Signal gets around this by not having the technical ability to moderate (or any substantial data to hand over).
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
Exactly. Telegram has a ton of public channels full of content that is illegal in most EU countries and refuses to comply with any local laws on hate speech. They know perfectly well what their platform is used for, they just don’t care. It would be a wildly different case if everything were E2E encrypted by default.
d4f0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also they use a custom encryption protocol that had bugs that look like a backdoor. grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113020871978942265
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
Well, the French police seem to be saying the way he is running the company involves being knowingly complicit, not that they just happen to be hosting/facilitating communication without the company’s knowledge.