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.
  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
    4·
    8 months ago

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

    • mihor@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      Great, I didn’t know that. They ‘ban’ the Russian news channels that way as well.