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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Telegram has removed terrrorist groups such as ISIS before. See this 2019 Wired article

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand Facebook doing nothing literally spiralled Myanmar into ethnic cleansing.

So sometimes a bit of moderation is better

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Israel is already doing ethnic cleansing so... I wouldn't really call this a win

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[–] burchalka@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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...

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

They're also legally liable for content on their app store, which is one of the big (maybe biggest) reasons they bother to monitor it so carefully. Their app store moderation is genuinely heavy-handed at the best of times, but it makes sense for them to distance themselves from Telegram in this case.

It also entirely makes sense that Telegram has only limited their changes to Android as a response. Apple customers are where the money is at anyway.