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		lenkite 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French ai... How do they "knowingly" service criminals ? Is there a check box to state that you are a criminal when you message someone ? I just installed Telegram and can't find it.

wwtrv 11 months ago [–]

The idea is (well according to France at least) that they'll monitor those chats and report the suspected "criminals" to the government.

> Is there a check box to state that you are a criminal when you message someone

I assume they'd could check for specific keywords or use perceptual hashing for images etc.

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