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.

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.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/0UFhF

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    42·
    3 months 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.