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Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."

What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform.

There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender.

Here's just one of the studies: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distributi...

Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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post #2

"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform." What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform. There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender. Here's just one of the studies: https://cyber.fsi.stanford…

Facebook is also full of drug and malware shops and advertisements for such.

Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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post #3
post #2

"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform." What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform. There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender. Here's just one of the studies: https://cyber.fsi.stanford…

Facebook is also full of drug and malware shops and advertisements for such.

Meta will take down those ads if reported.

What is important when it comes to regulators is not whether you fail to comply or not. It is whether you take your responsibility to comply seriously e.g. timely responses to information requests, continuous process improvement etc.

Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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post #3
post #2

"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform." What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform. There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender. Here's just one of the studies: https://cyber.fsi.stanford…

Facebook is also full of drug and malware shops and advertisements for such.

Does that justify it then?

Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is also full of drug and malware shops and advertisements for such.

Meta will take down those ads if reported. What is important when it comes to regulators is not whether you fail to comply or not. It is whether you take your responsibility to comply seriously e.g. timely responses to information requests, continuous process improvement etc.

The Via Rail scam card ads have been on facebook for months. You can figure out it's a scam with a 2 second google search:

https://www.facebook.com/viarailcanada/posts/scam-warning-av...

I reported it (like others in this thread), but facebook said it didn't break any rules. I requested another review, and they said the same thing, with no way for me to make any comments or replies.

Perhaps they will remove certain ads if it's instantly obvious that it is illegal, but overall they're pretty terrible at moderation.

Re: Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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> It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform

As the law places certain responsibilities onto platforms, if you (any platform not just Telegram) say this kind of thing, are you sure you're following the law right, or are you just saying the law is wrong and bad?

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