Not sure how I feel about this, Google isn’t the law but it is their platform…but the app is the platform that hosts them and they haven’t been forced to remove any other groups.
Same here. I think censorship is bad - but looks like Google really want to distance themselves from anything Hamas related, and even Telegram bosses who didn’t bend for Russian government pressure (couple of years ago there was an attempt to control or block Telegram there) prefer to stay away from it…
Not sure how I feel about this, Google isn’t the law but it is their platform…but the app is the platform that hosts them and they haven’t been forced to remove any other groups.
Telegram has removed terrrorist groups such as ISIS before. See this 2019 Wired article
On the other hand Facebook doing nothing literally spiralled Myanmar into ethnic cleansing.
So sometimes a bit of moderation is better
Israel is already doing ethnic cleansing so… I wouldn’t really call this a win
Not with Google help at least. Doing nothing though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M&ab_channel=JohnnyHarris
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Same here. I think censorship is bad - but looks like Google really want to distance themselves from anything Hamas related, and even Telegram bosses who didn’t bend for Russian government pressure (couple of years ago there was an attempt to control or block Telegram there) prefer to stay away from it…