This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Honestly, that title made me throw up in my mouth a little and the article made it worse.
Not everything needs to be moderated and fear mongering because terrorists are supposedly using certain social media doesn't help that much either.
If criminals can't use a certain platform due to moderation they can simply hop to some other platform.
This post is nothing more than "think of the children".
Rationalization for silencing people that OP disagrees with. Just call them "terrorists" and now it's moral.
OP would've been a member of the Blue Police.
Rationalization for silencing people that OP disagrees with. Just call them “terrorists” and now it’s moral.
I'm sorry, is there another title you would like to use for mass murderers who engage in mass murder for the purpose of causing terror? Is there somebody here who agrees with ISIS, with their position that people who don't love ISIS shouldn't have heads?
I don't think I need to rationalize my position that scammers and killers are bad and should not be given a free platform upon which to reach hundreds of millions of people with unlimited video uploads. I think that's a perfectly rational position as is.
I don't think opposing neo-Nazi conspiracies makes me a Nazi. I do think you said that in a weak attempt to shut down all rational discussion here.
Criminals use the www! It's time for moderation to get serious.
It does not work like this. At least, it should not.
Why can't we just better educate people on how to avoid online scams. Oh wait that wouldn't give the government an excuse to legislate another part of our lives into oblivion.
And it's funny how suddenly we are having all these terrorist problems it's like something else is causing it, but once again solving it probably doesn't benefit the government.
I'm all for better education, but there will always be people who don't understand the technology, and scammers and extremists will always look for new ways to trick people and radicalize people.
Most of these regulators are just asking the platforms what they're doing to combat extremism, not actively regulating the platforms. Regulators are, by and large, afraid of technology, and afraid that they'll regulate it incorrectly. But by questioning the companies, they can apply pressure to make sure the companies take moderation seriously. The fear of hypothetical regulation and strong negative PR is usually enough to get the companies to at least try to do better. That's a good thing.
And it’s funny how suddenly we are having all these terrorist problems it’s like something else is causing it, but once again solving it probably doesn’t benefit the government.
I have no fucking idea what you're trying to say here.
And it’s funny how suddenly we are having all these terrorist problems it’s like something else is causing it, but once again solving it probably doesn’t benefit the government.
I have no fucking idea what you're trying to say here.
That the government is making up the terrorist problems so while people are scared they can come to our rescue, legislate, and thus have more control.
Moderation by who exactly?
Where is telegram hosted/managed?
Honestly I doubt even delisting from the play/app stores will stop people from using it, at least on Android.
According to wikipedia, worldwide servers, HQ in Dubai.
Honestly I doubt even delisting from the play/app stores will stop people from using it, at least on Android.
It would make it much more difficult for scammers to reach victims, and dramatically stem its growth, but that's not really what I'm calling for. I'm mostly just hoping that the world includes these messaging services when thinking about how to address and regulate social media and extremism, rather than excluding them because they misclassify them as not being social networks.
Please send me all the private messages of your phone so that I can moderate them. You're not a hypocrite, aren't you?
No, my private messages are well-encrypted. But people voluntarily send their private messages to Telegram without e2ee and avail themselves of Telegram's moderation, which they know it does. They just know that their crypto scams are profitable enough given how little of a fuck Telegram gives that they're willing to put up with it. They know that sharing unlimited videos on private servers would cost money, and that money would mean less money to buy weapons with, so why not enjoy unlimited uploads and share them with half a billion people who think "yeah, that's fine."
It's time for moderation. I'm still waiting for your messages.
Why don't you start with the messages people have already voluntarily given you?
Anybody who has received the messages I've voluntarily sent them is free to do with those messages as they see fit. I certainly haven't asked any of them to store large videos for me for free without input.
It's always from kbin.social, eh
Yep, I noticed too and I want to understand why ?
OP said something I disagree with, therefore all of kbin must be like him!
How childish. I don't see anyone assuming lemmy users are all tankies because they visited lemmygrad once.
What is? I don't get what's going on here
The fool who's rampaging around in the thread here, who also happens to be OP
The asshole who wrote the article and stands by it, how dare he argue for his position!
If you have a response to something I said, I'd encourage you to actually make it rather than just being a dick about it.
Because his position is hypocritical and morally reprehensible.
My position is one I am quite proud of. Again, instead of being a dick, you could try responding to me, as though I were a person. There's nothing hypocritical about my position, I expect all unencrypted services I use to be moderated as well.
Sounds right, I'd kike to know why this has been downvoted so much.
Totally agree that huge social media systems need to be understood as disproportionately affecting misinformation. I don't know anything about Telegram, though.
Are the pushback people fReEzE PeAChErs or something? Is Telegram just lovely? Dunno.
I'm part of a few Telegram channels full of highly progressive IRL friends and colleagues. I also know Telegram is full of channels dedicated to crypto shilling, liveleak-esque video and imagery, piracy chats, privacy chats, QAnon forums, etc etc. I used it to communicate with family when I was out of the country and didn't want to pay for roaming charges.
Telegram itself is just a piece of software. Telegram's community is wide and varied. Does it need moderation? Yeah probably. Who should be doing the moderating, not just of individual channels but of all the channels? Eh, I don't have a good answer to that.
Telegram itself is just a piece of software. Telegram's community is wide and varied. Does it need moderation? Yeah probably. Who should be doing the moderating, not just of individual channels but of all the channels? Eh, I don't have a good answer to that.
As long as you agree it should be happening, I appreciate that. I think Telegram should probably worry about it, and keep looking for solutions, but also that people should report the problematic groups and channels they come across, and be aware of the issue just to put a little more PR pressure on them to come up with a solution.
Shitty medium crap is worse than telegram
The only time I see medium is links to blog type stuff.
I've seen telegram spam all across the internet, the list of platforms I haven't seen telegram spam on is basically the list of dead ones.
Exactly. Medium is just a joke because it's only people blabbering shit. It's just extra long tweets.
Not that comments on lemmy are any better, but they don't require linking to an external source for unsourced opinion pieces.
You realize that I sourced pretty much every single assertion I made, right?
The only time I see medium is links to blog type stuff.
I'm so confused, what else do people expect to see on Medium, ads for sugary breakfast cereal?
Large popups that prevent me from reading the content
Ah, well, at least my article wasn't behind a paywall. I could have used write.as, but I felt like more people would see it on medium, and it didn't seem like a big difference.
