Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said […] social media - naming Telegram and TikTok - were widely used to facilitate crime and that if it was up to him alone, some communication platforms would be geoblocked and shut down.
A TikTok spokesperson for the Nordics said the company had no comment on the ministers’ statement but added it was looking forward to working with the governments on the issue.
Telegram said that it abided by the EU’s Digital Service Act and that recruitment for illegal acts was forbidden on the platform.
Meta and X did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
Like a job site !?
The gangs are actually buying ads to recruit??
Yeah, that’s great and all but they do realise if those services get monitored or shut down, restricted, whatever, those guys will just use something else? Maybe it makes more sense to work on the root cause why those gangs got big in the first place?
Give children a perspective for their life, don’t just welcome immigrants to the country but actively support their integration. There are probably many other factors to address.
But I know, it’s sooo haaaard, boohooo. Better shut down all messaging, yes, that will put a stop to this.
That’s what I thought, too. Just shutting down won’t be enough, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. They should be regulated, and there must be a human being who can held accountable for what they do (very much as it is the case with ‘conventional’ media, and forcing them to make their code Open Source could be some measures).
We should definitely fight the root cause, but we should take away the gun of the shooter and rethink the gun policy, too.
Nonsense. If a national newspaper had these ads they would also be told to stop accepting these ads to their adspace.
What is so difficult to understand here. If someone is using your platform to do illegal shit you get asked to put a stop to it. If this means manually vetting each ad, you put this in the price and continue on.
All this yammering about poor big tech beiing held to account. Stop it. They are multi billion dollar companies that make money off this. If you are told your trucks are used for coke transport by this customer and you keep moving his boxes… you are complicit.
