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> If you get caught driving a getaway car for an armed robber, you are going to jail.

Bad analogy.

Better one is that your a taxi driver and someone who committed a crime hops into your car for a ride, then you’re found guilty by association.



Well in Telegram's case the idea is that they knowingly provide taxi services to those criminals and do supposedly nothing when it's reported to them because they are "too small" to moderate everything


How do they "knowingly" service criminals ? Is there a check box to state that you are a criminal when you message someone ? I just installed Telegram and can't find it.


The idea is (well according to France at least) that they'll monitor those chats and report the suspected "criminals" to the government.

> Is there a check box to state that you are a criminal when you message someone

I assume they'd could check for specific keywords or use perceptual hashing for images etc.




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