The fact that this exists doesn’t surprise me. People are horrible.
The fact that THIS MANY people were in it is disgusting.
To be very slightly fair, if you have public settings on Telegram you can get randomly added to groups without signing up for them, I read an article about this, a journalist who got added to all sorts of illicit groups for credit card theft, etc, without asking. So it’s possible there’s people in there who have never even opened the chat because they don’t use Telegram much and don’t understand it.
Possibly but if I was auto added to one of these groups I would report and leave it. Not stay on it.
Oh sure me too. But a lot of people end up on Telegram because they’re looking for right wing content and aren’t very social media literate, so they don’t understand how to get out of it.
Yeah, this is basically how it goes. Telegram is set by default to allow anybody to add you to chats. You can disable that, or set it so only Contacts can add you. Anyways, how it usually goes is some nefarious party, or a bot, will make their way into a legit chat room and then start adding all the members to their crypto chats, or whatever. Thankfully, I only ever was added to crypto scam chats at random before I fixed my privacy settings.
Apparently, there was a guy who drugged and raped his wife and sold her to be raped by 50 other men in France, fucking 20 years in prison. Only 20 years. Fuck…
I understand what you mean, but if I read it correctly the articles said that he was her husband for 50 years. Assuming they got married at 20, he would now be 70, so 20 years means that most likely the rest of his miserable life will be in prison.
Apparently
It’s been like huge news AND it’s mentioned in the article
All of the rapists received some jail time, too. Not enough, but some.
Get’em. Do WhatsApp next.
I’m thinking a lot of people are about to lose their jobs…
The thing with Telegram is that they do not cooperate with police. The founder was arrested for this reason.
“they say”
Put this after the word ‘that’
I’m not giving any opinion here, but just 2 posts away people are complaining about telegram giving up users to the authorities.
I think with this sort of groups it’d be less of a problem if they were quicker to shut them down. You don’t get 70 000 members in an instant.
There’s a greet episode of Black Mirror, I don’t wish for any of the plots to become reality but the one with the pedos sent on geo hunts needs to happen.
YES. Great episode.
Stuff like this will cost us Article 240, and will have to do “preemptive moderation” with AI tools…
Seems related to https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27573120
If this were true do you think they’d release this info without sitting on it and using it for a sting or two. I’m not in any way calling this BS, I’m just trying to reconcile that for myself before considering this further.
