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It’s pretty understandable. Many companies do not want to use their platform to give terrorists a voice.

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Title is a bit misleading. Those channels are not blocked on Android in general, but only on the play store version of telegram. Download from F-Droid instead and that’s that.

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I think I can do without terrorist channels.

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It’s the principal of the matter.

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Do you feel the same about Nazi channels?

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This is why sideloading is always an essential function for any devices in general. How come I buy stuff and do whatever the fuck I want with it?

Don’t get me wrong, although I think it’s quite clear, Hamas, obviously bad. Very much understandable of Google’s decision. But a company(apple) deciding what is and what is not acceptable to be installed on my device? It’s just uncanny how acceptable it is. That’s like buying a car that can’t go into certain places because uSeR sAfEtY. Even if I probably would never go there, why on Earth would you want that?

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No one does except those in power.

The show must go on and “I’m” the star. - vote me

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Not sure how I feel about this, Google isn’t the law but it is their platform…but the app is the platform that hosts them and they haven’t been forced to remove any other groups.

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Telegram has removed terrrorist groups such as ISIS before. See this 2019 Wired article

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On the other hand Facebook doing nothing literally spiralled Myanmar into ethnic cleansing.

So sometimes a bit of moderation is better

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Israel is already doing ethnic cleansing so… I wouldn’t really call this a win

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Not with Google help at least. Doing nothing though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M&ab_channel=JohnnyHarris

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Same here. I think censorship is bad - but looks like Google really want to distance themselves from anything Hamas related, and even Telegram bosses who didn’t bend for Russian government pressure (couple of years ago there was an attempt to control or block Telegram there) prefer to stay away from it…

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They’re also legally liable for content on their app store, which is one of the big (maybe biggest) reasons they bother to monitor it so carefully. Their app store moderation is genuinely heavy-handed at the best of times, but it makes sense for them to distance themselves from Telegram in this case.

It also entirely makes sense that Telegram has only limited their changes to Android as a response. Apple customers are where the money is at anyway.

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Good, Hamas terrorists and their apologists should not be given a platform.

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Israel and their apologists should not be given one, either.

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