Telegram CEO Announces “Improvements” to Moderation, Removal of Features Used for Illegal Activity

Elvis Dunderhoff September 7, 2024

Previously: Pavel Durov Issues Statement Regarding His Strange Arrest in France

What the hell is even going on here?

Why was this man arrested?

Why did he go to France? Didn’t someone warn him this was coming down? He’s a billionaire. Don’t they have connections to intelligence and so on? What is the point of being a billionaire if you can’t even get a “heads up” about an arrest coming down on you in France?

Whatever. Who knows.

As I predicted, they are changing the rules about content in response to the arrest.

This is how democracy works: they kidnap you and force you to do things against your will, under threat of torture.

The Guardian:

The chief executive of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has announced the messaging app will improve moderation on the platform and has removed some features that have been used for illegal activity.

The app’s founder unveiled the changes on Friday hours after calling his arrest by the French authorities last month “misguided”. Durov has since been charged with allegedly allowing criminal activity on the app.

Did you know the Arabs were selling Filipino maids on Facebook Marketplace? It took them years to ban it and it’s probably still happening.

Was Mark Zuckerberg arrested by the French for that? I forget.

I’m not even saying Zuckerberg should be charged for that. I’m just saying this Telegram thing is fake. When you have a platform with hundreds of millions of users, you can’t possibly be expected to police the whole thing.

In a post on X, he said the messaging app was “committed to turn moderation on Telegram from an area of criticism into one of praise”.

The changes announced by Durov included removing the app’s “people nearby” feature, which he said had “issues with bots and scammers”, and replacing it with “businesses nearby”, featuring legitimate businesses; and disabling media uploads on the app’s blogging tool, Telegraph, which Durov said was being “misused by anonymous actors”.

The Verge, a tech news site, also reported that Telegram has removed references on its FAQ page to private chats being protected and that requests to moderate them would not be processed. A spokesperson told the site that the app’s source code had not changed but users could report a new chat to moderators.

Durov added that Telegram’s nearly 1 billion users had been let down by a minority.

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“While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk,” he said.

It’s not actually about criminality. Again, Facebook was running an open slave market for years on end. That’s true. Click the CNN link above or look it up yourself. People were complaining like “yo, Zuck, why you running a slave market???” and he was like “yeah, we’ll get to that at some point in the future.”

Governments do not care about child porn or human trafficking or any of the other things they’re accusing Durov of.

What they care about is people talking about Jews and other things you’re not allowed to talk about. They care about people posting videos of what is going on in Palestine. They care about unsanctioned opinions.

That’s the only thing they care about.

This case against Durov is from the American feds. They just used their little bitch-boy France to do their dirty work. Every European state is just a little bitch for Washington.

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