UK's Ofcom launches an investigation into Telegram over concerns of CSAM being shared on the platform and its use by predators to groom children
Britain's communications regulator, Ofcom, launched an investigation on Tuesday into the Telegram messaging app after evidence suggested …
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Discussion
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@supermickychow
@supermickychow
on bluesky
Any bets on how this goes? I'm thinking it will be as effective and stringent as the one they did on Twitter — UK regulators are there to gatekeep, not represent the public [embedded post]
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@jacobincambodia
@jacobincambodia
on x
Telegram's running the same denial under every Ofcom thread. Cases I see through child protection work make clear how routine CSAM distribution and sale on the platform really is. Group links circulate openly. The “world-class detection” is either fiction or it's not working. [vi…