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Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

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

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Post by MattGaiser »

cpncrunch wrote: post #8
threeseed wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

For the VIA thing, I have legitimately earned VIA Preference Points for surveys [0] and have heard of them being offered as survey rewards at my alma mater of Queen’s University (where VIA use is pretty heavy).

[0] https://campaign.askingcanadians.com/faq/via

So I can see some of those offers being legitimate.

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

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Post by Timber-6539 »

The more the French authorities delay in releasing official information about Durov's arrest, the worse it looks for them.

I mean the West has always accused the East of employing similar tactics wrt arresting journalists/freedom fighters etc, how do we not see the irony here...

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

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Post by brookst »

cpncrunch wrote: post #8
threeseed wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Meta being bad at following their policies is a different problem than a platform whose policies say they won’t stop abuse. You can argue which problem is worse, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that the world should treat the two problems the same.

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

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Post by threeseed »

cpncrunch wrote: post #8
threeseed wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

The priority for regulators are money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorism, CSAM, trafficking etc.

Serious crimes where people's lives are at stake.

Scams in general are towards the bottom on everyone's priority list.

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

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Post by DragonStrength »

ronsor wrote: post #3
aa_is_op wrote: 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.

Yep, and I think we’re way too soft on Meta for what they push and profit from on FB and Instagram.

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

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Post by euroderf »

Timber-6539 wrote: post #14

The more the French authorities delay in releasing official information about Durov's arrest, the worse it looks for them. I mean the West has always accused the East of employing similar tactics wrt arresting journalists/freedom fighters etc, how do we not see the irony here...

Your point is valid. We cannot reason about events based on intentions. We must reason based on capabilities, and on actions.
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