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Reddit admin caused some drama in r/combatfootage when they came down on them for having Hamas pov videos. It's a very muddled stance. Ukrainian and Russian pov: a-okay. Israeli settlers in the west Bank shooting unarmed palistinians: also a-okay. Hamas: no-bueno. Somebody make it make sense. I'd ask there but of course the thread was already locked.

If I remember right, Reddit hired somebody who was formerly at NSA or Pentagon. Posting anything anti-Ukranian or pro-Russian gets heavily censored. Not surprised that it happens with Hamas too, as the US provoked a civil war between Fatah and Hamas by openly and publicly favouring Fatah. They hate Hamas.

Is there any advertiser pushback on Hamas content, since they are not a proper State?

I think if we're gonna start picking and choosing which murder porn is okay based on state backing, we may as well start up the hunger games.

"Israeli settlers in the west Bank shooting unarmed palistinians"

What are you talking about? I can't find any video you're describing

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/search?q=palestinians

The difference is only one of those four examples is an internationally designated terror organization.

Another of those four examples is internationally designated as a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention under UNSC Resolution 2334. I don't think one can say that international condemnation is particularly unique to any of them.

One of those states is also an internationally recognized “state sponsor of terrorism” so it’s not that far off

If Russia didn't usurp USSRs UN seat, they'd be designated a terrorist state.

Russia didn't usurp anything; they are legally USSR ancestor state.

They also got all of USSR's debts.

The article says the opposite sides use the app, not just one side pushing their propaganda (naturally, that along is enough to blame for "misinformation"). Great app.

I find telegram lacking in two major ways:

1. Can't block annoying posters

2. No functional website

For these reasons I avoid it if possible.

> 1. Can't block annoying posters

I'm confused. In what context?

You can certainly block "annoying" users from chatting with you directly. You can leave channels that you don't like. The only thing I can think of which you can't do is block users in groups you aren't the admin of.

correct, in group comments can't block or at least hide users.

> No functional website

You surely don't mean web.telegram.com isn't functional?

What I meant is t.me site with "channel previews".

web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com

You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it.

Thanks for that.

The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)

> You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it.

It's not hidden, it's right there in the list of apps along with everything else: https://telegram.org/apps

> The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)

Some custom clients allow you to block users in group chats (and also can filter out spam in channels). Depends on your platform though.

Yeah, now that I know it exists I can find it. Yet on the main page where all the telegram client downloads are it's absent: https://telegram.org/

I guess I didn't think I need to search for the web site in the Apps.

It's at the bottom of the page in the footer - links to https://telegram.org/dl/web ;)

You're correct. I guess this sort of UI didn't work for me. I learned to ignore footnotes for anything useful.

> web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com

... why?

> The point on blocking still remains

That would be a cool feature - they take feature requests at https://bugs.telegram.org/ - I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it so it's possible noone has requested this before. Seems novel.

> Why?

Telegram.com belongs to Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper owned by Gannett. Gannett also owns USA Today.

The Telegram app has always used Telegram.org.

> I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it

Discord has that, though I wouldn't call it Telegram's competitor

> I'm not aware of any competing apps

twitter?

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