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I just opened telegram, went to ‘find people nearby’ and was immediately presented with a long list of drug dealers and prostitutes advertising their services. I’m pretty sure that’s not legal


Now try to buy from them. They are just scammers who are nowhere near you. They will ask you to send codes from gift cards.


That's not legal either


guess my e-mail provider is going to jail.


Does your email provider cooperate with law enforcement when they show up with a warrant and want details about an email/account involved in criminal activity?


Did telegram not? They do ban those; the channels and accounts are getting deleted. Some content is available in one country and not available in other countries. Imo we need more data to tell what was happening and how fair these accusations are.


Every once in a while I find a slip of paper in my postbox with the contact info of a local drug dealer. The police can't be bothered arresting them and even if they do such a dealer gets replaced in hours anyway. They use WhatsApp.

I think it's CP that gets Telegram in hot water. Prostitution or drugs bothers noone but pedophiles trading stuff wakes everyone up.


In my country, they just write a website domain on the wall and add "VPN Tor". I wonder, why police doesn't do anything with Tor and VPN.




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