What Mike Masnick thinks about Telegram
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3 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Mike Masnick has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.
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Our readingMost of what Durov is charged with is conduct almost any large platform could be accused of.
Their wordsA lot of the things listed in the charge sheet are things that lots of websites and communications providers could be said to have done themselves, though perhaps to a different degree.
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Their wordsI know from the report that Stanford put out earlier this year that Telegram does not report CSAM to NCMEC at all. That is very stupid. I would imagine Telegram would argue that as a non-US company it doesn’t have to abide by such laws.
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