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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by matheusmoreira on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:25AM (#35900649)
No.

If Telegram was a social media company with algorithmic content recommendation systems, you could argue it was penalizing one side in favor of the other one. If that was the case I'd agree with you but it's not the case. Telegram is a messaging app, like signal and whatsapp. Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself.

The election is already over anyway. This episode is just Lula and his people making good on his campaign promise to "regulate" the internet by censoring it.

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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:30AM (#35901144)
> > Telegram itself sent a message to all its brazilian users speaking out against the censorship law they're trying to pass.

> Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself.

I don't think those can both be true.

Mind you, I'm not on Brazil's side here. I'm just saying that your two statements seem contradictory.

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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by matheusmoreira on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:22AM (#35901640)
I don't think they did anything of the sort during the elections. Only now that the brazilian government is trying to pass laws that could very well drive them out of the country did they make their own position clear.

This has also happened to WhatsApp by the way. Judges blocked WhatsApp nation wide for days because it failed to provide plain text user messages in a criminal investigation. Zuckerberg posted his opinion about it on Facebook.

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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:36AM (#35903705)
Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining. (I don't follow Brazil enough to have understood the sequence there.)
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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by SkeuomorphicBee on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:56AM (#35902154)
> Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself.

That is absolutely not true. Telegram the company itself (not a user or users) mass-sent the propaganda message to all users of the platform in the country. That is a chilling overstep by a company that is supposed to be a neutral carrier.

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Re:Telegram deletes message against Brazil’s Bill after Supr... by matheusmoreira on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:49PM (#35905678)
It was true during the elections. At no point during the elections did Telegram send a message to users favoring one candidate or another.
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