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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 weeks ago (30 children)

[French media] said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Europe defending its citizens against the tech giants, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (19 children)

There's a lot of really really dark shit on telegram that's for sure, and it's not like signal where they are just a provider. They do have control the content

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't recall CP/gore being readily available on those platforms, it gets reported/removed pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're young. It really was a thing. It never stayed up long, and they found ways to make it essentially instantaneous, but there was a time it was easy to find very unpleasant things on Facebook, whether you wanted to or not. Gore in specific was easy to run across at one point. CP, it was more offers to sell it.

They fixed it, and it isn't like that now, but it was a problem in the first year or two.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

And there are still informal networks of Pedos and other pests operating on these platforms to this day.

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