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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by foepys on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:02PM (#24739823)
> So Apple is now in charge of deciding whether elections are legitimate?

Don't worry, Apple doesn't have to decide anything here. The US government already did.

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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by dane-pgp on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:44PM (#24742437)
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, but perhaps people don't believe the claim that the US government has formally taken a side on the legitimacy of the elections:

https://www.axios.com/us-lukashenko-president-belarus-353ed2...

It seems to me that this offers a clever way out for Apple: If Lukashenko isn't the legitimate president of Belarus, then the "police" following his orders to attack protesters are not police at all, but terrorists; and Telegram is helping to bring them to the attention of the legitimate authorities of the president in exile.

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