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Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating... by Justsignedup on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:15AM (#30288310)
The challenge with Telegram is that it has server costs, but it has no income cash flow. They're experimenting. But overall its 100% investment money. And so if they cannot be tried criminally, there's no business loss if they can't take German cash. This is obviously an issue with Facebook who cares about cash quite a bit, or Reddit, or whatever. But not Telegram.

So yeah.

My guess is that at this point Germany is saying that this could fall into the criminal side of things, at which point Telegram would care.

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Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating... by ajsnigrutin on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:05PM (#30289176)
> My guess is that at this point Germany is saying that this could fall into the criminal side of things, at which point Telegram would care.

Not sure where telegram is registered, but can a foreign company have a criminal responsiblity by just being accessible in that country? I'm sure most of the internet violates some kind of ancient anti-something law, be it nudity or whatever, but noone really cares if boobs are illegal in afghanistan, why care if something is illegal in germany, if you're an (eg.) british company?

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Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating... by tpoacher on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:54AM (#30288978)
I need a huge fact-check on this, but I seem to remember that while the "no cash flow" statement is trivially true, in practice isn't the investment capital already enough to cover several decades of funding?
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