this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
82 points (83.6% liked)

Privacy

31789 readers
290 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Last week, several pro-Palestinian Telegram channels were blocked in European countries, including the “Palestine Archive ??” channel with more than 15,000 followers and the “Resistance News Network” (RNN) with more than 166,000 subscribers. The exact justification of the ban are not known. While Telegram did not respond to a journalistic request, the RNN said that there was no reason for the closure. Anyone who tries to open up the channel in the affected countries now will receive the notification that they cannot be not displayed because they “violate local laws”. RNN and the online outlet The Cradle have spoken of an EU-wide ban.

While the legal basis for the blocking remains unclear, the political reasons are obvious. RNN itself explained to Peoples Dispatch: “We believe RNN was banned because we shed light on the reality of resistance on the ground, which upends the mainstream zionist narrative.“

all 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Kind of hilarious how people in the west would always claims that the differentiating factor between them and countries like China was freedom of expression. Turns out what was really happening was that majority of people in the west were just swallowing their state propaganda uncritically, and there was no need for heavy handed censorship. Now that the state is losing control of the narrative heavy handed measures are promptly introduced.

As always, the west is no different from its adversaries, but people in the west are gullible enough to think they're special.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The article is a month old but many users are reporting on new bans since yesterday.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Dont memeber states have a bunch of idiotic laws against speech?

Probably really easy to justify censorship against anything you want really...

You hurt the vulture's feelings when you called him out for eating that zebra when she was still alive!

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Zionism has corrupted the West.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Been the case for a while. If anything this is more a symptom of the virus being (very slowly) expelled from Western consciousness.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

I hope that's true.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The West created Zionism. Zionism is a Western settler-colonialist project, as was the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Nazi Germany, to name a few.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The solution is to not use Telegram, and fuck the govs

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

how to miss the point entirely

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Telegram is not a social for counter the censorship and be private, it's not good at all to use Telegram for this kind of messaging + with the arrest of Durov, it will even more difficult to counter govs when using Telegram

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

continuing to miss the point I see

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Telegram is awful, but that's mainly because it is readily bent towards the interests of malicious state actors like we see here. This headline is produced by two things being bad, not just one.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't a privacy issue.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Censorship and privacy are closely linked but you are right they are different subjects. Telegram blocking access to certain channels based on region overlaps into privacy territory for me but people are free to down vote the post if they disagree.

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Most people in the security industries that I've ever known are keenly interested in privacy, for good reason. There is a reason certain protesting elements *cover their faces and it's not usually for nefarious reasons.

*Autocorrect ftl

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Europa The Just acting unfairly? No way!™

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Playing a bit of devil's advocate here: any of you used these channels? Could it be that they were just spreading misinformation like every country does at war? Any example of existing zionist Telegram channels?