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by NayamAmarshe 665 days ago
Telegram regularly bans channels that promote hate-speech or do illegal activities.

The only issue is, their team is way too small for moderation, which is why so many weird communities keep popping up.

I’ve been on Telegram for 5 years and I’ve yet to see anything of what you mentioned in your comment.

It’s a fear mongering tactic against a perfectly good and arguably the best messenger application in existence right now.

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I have seen it constantly. IDK why, but so sometimes I got just invited into such groups.

When I activated the function to find people around me, most of the time I was spending in Telegram was leaving and reporting such groups.

Some of the channels, even discoverable by simple search, were years old.

"Arguably" Element is way better than Telegram, it actually properly encrypts private chats AND allows sync between devices

Would it be bad for AI to start moderating / flagging speech? Seems like it could vastly extend the range of human moderators and also spare humans from directly scrutinizing harmful graphic content. Big Robot Brother reminds me of the anime Psycho-Pass.