„ Das Unternehmen stelle derzeit 1.000 Strafanzeigen – im Monat. Die Meldungen gehen „rechtssicher“ an die Justiz. Auf der Webseite kann man unter „Erfolgsgeschichten“ nachlesen: „3.200 € Strafe wegen ‚Hurensohn‘“, „1.000 € für ‚verbrauchte Lobbyhure‘“ oder „‚Rheinmetallschlampe‘ kostet 1000 €“. Das Meldeaufkommen würde sogar bald steigen – wenn das Dreier-Team auch „anderen betroffenen“ helfen würde“.
„ Das Unternehmen stelle derzeit 1.000 Strafanzeigen – im Monat. Die Meldungen gehen „rechtssicher“ an die Justiz. Auf der Webseite kann man unter „Erfolgsgeschichten“ nachlesen: „3.200 € Strafe wegen ‚Hurensohn‘“, „1.000 € für ‚verbrauchte Lobbyhure‘“ oder „‚Rheinmetallschlampe‘ kostet 1000 €“. Das Meldeaufkommen würde sogar bald steigen – wenn das Dreier-Team auch „anderen betroffenen“ helfen würde“.
Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. Update March 8, 2022: EFF has clarified that Channels and Groups are not fully encrypted, end-to-end, updated our post to link to Telegram’s FAQ for Cloud and Secret chats, updated to clarify that auto-delete is available for group and channel admins, and added some additional links.
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