Esra'a (@alshafei@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
@evacide@hachyderm.io It gets a bit worse, Telegram has a long-standing relationship with a Saudi organization that's essentially a govt arm in Riyadh, working in direct partnership to analyze and monitor an obscene amount of user data: https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/641746/SAUDI-ARABIA/Etidal-Telegram-remove-over-16-million-extremist-contents-in-early-2024 They claim this only targets terrorist groups. I can verify that it absolutely impacts groups run by queer communities in the Gulf, because I was in one such group that was monitored and shut down by Etidal. Telegram can fuck off into the sunset.
  • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Same with groups related to the Gaza genocide.

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    • dmnknf@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Ror this one I think they advertised somewhere that the groups would still be available if you download the apk from their website, I did this and I can still see the hamas group

      • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
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        6 months ago

        iirc they need to comply with google store policies, but when downloading the apk directly that is not relevant.