Messaging and social media app Telegram, which has gained a reputation for protecting users from aggressive government surveillance and censorship, seems to have failed under official pressure and shut down two opposition channels in Hong Kong after threats from regulators.
South China Morning Post reported that two channels were closed due to the alleged sharing of personal information by government officials.
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Telegram on Friday shut down two channels for allegedly sharing personal information without permission after appearing under the same name as an account that was previously banned following a report filed by a Hong Kong watchdog.
However, shortly after the main account was shut down, two channels with the same name appeared. It has been claimed that the channels, which introduce themselves as “primary” and “sub” accounts, share the personal information of some pro-establishment names. They have about 1000 and 650 subscribers, respectively.
HORSE Mail See, on Friday, all messages from the two channels were removed with the note that both were blocked due to “doxxing people’s personal information without permission”.
Telegram’s decision comes after Hong Kong’s privacy regulator, the Personal Data Privacy Commissioner, threatened to shut Telegram down on Chinese soil following the alleged attacks on government officials. flower mountain Last month, it was reported that the regulator is considering restricting public access to the platform.
At the time, Telegram tried to balance compliance with protection and opposition, telling Bloomberg that it supported freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest, but “content that discloses personal information without permission (doxxing) is not allowed and is regularly removed.” ”
Last week, Mirror Telegram has also reportedly turned over user data on child abuse and terrorism cases to the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), although it is reportedly beginning to follow up with Western governments and the company is reportedly reluctant to provide data on other crimes.
Telegram continues to say on its website, “So far we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.”
Allum Bohari is senior technical correspondent for Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s War to Delete the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. follow him Twitter @LibertarianBlue.
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