It’s pretty understandable. Many companies do not want to use their platform to give terrorists a voice.
Title is a bit misleading. Those channels are not blocked on Android in general, but only on the play store version of telegram. Download from F-Droid instead and that’s that.
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No one does except those in power.
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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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https://www.piped.video/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M&ab_channel=JohnnyHarris
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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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…
Good, Hamas terrorists and their apologists should not be given a platform.
Israel and their apologists should not be given one, either.
This is just another parameter that will now be built into future chat software; no high level control over channels or groups by any central authority. The Internet will route around all obstacles.
They shouldn’t submit to arbitrary censorship, even if I also disagree with Hamas, Google could do it to anyone they disagree with. Telegram should move to (or at least also be on, with an uncensored version) F-Droid.
They are. There’s a FOSS version of Telegram on f-droid.
This is why I don’t use a messaging app that allows non-participants to control my conversations.
Wow Google, that’s pretty not evil of you!
Hamas channels, or Hamas channels promoting violence?
First good thing Google has ever done.
🙄 way to be over dramatic
