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

• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They can open every piece of mail and read the contents.

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      • wick@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Riiiight. And If you use a rental car to create a car bomb I guess the rental company CEO should go to straight to jail.

        If getting rid of privacy is what you think it takes to be safe and civilized, you are not the latter and you don’t deserve the former.

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • HarriPotero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except the getaway driver is just a cabbie who will drive anyone who gets in. He didn’t know he was part of a heist.

        Would you hold the CEO of lyft responsible if one of their self-driving cars were used in a heist?

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      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not sure. I was just bored and was making a funny comment.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        how are you meant to know, by impeding on your tenant’s privacy constantly?

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    • Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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