Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput. Telegram founder Pavel Durov has shared a post on his public channel regarding the enforcement action to shut down violence provoking calls in the US. We have just witnessed political riots in the United States and rising tension over the past few weeks. The attack on the US Capitol was an eye-opener for most of many tech giants in the world to reform their terms of service to avoid distributing violence calls in any form.

“For the last two weeks, the world has been following the events in the United States with concern. While the US represents less than 2% of our user base, we at Telegram have also been watching the situation closely.”, said Pavel Durov.

However, Telegram has become the first choice for tech and cybersecurity folks and it’s good to see the proactive measure this platform took to shut down as much as violence threats possible. Pavel Durov states on Telegram channel, “Telegram welcomes peaceful debate and protest, but our Terms of Service explicitly prohibit distributing public calls to violence. In the last 7 years, we’ve consistently enforced this rule globally, from Belarus and Iran to Thailand and Hong Kong. Сivil movements all over the world rely on Telegram in order to stand up for human rights without resorting to inflicting harm.”

He also added, ” In early January, the Telegram moderation team started to receive an increased number of reports about US-related public activity on our platform. The team acted decisively by clamping down on US channels that advocated violence.

Thanks to these efforts, last week our moderators blocked and shut down hundreds of public calls for violence that could’ve otherwise reached tens of thousands of subscribers. The team continues to process reports from users in addition to proactively removing content that directly incites violence.

I would like to thank everyone who reported public channels that crossed the line. Keep it up! We value each of your reports. Telegram welcomes political debate coming from all sides of the political spectrum – but will act swiftly to stop those who incite people to inflict harm on others.”

Due to a sudden change in WhatsApp privacy policy, other platforms like Signal and Telegram have seen a sudden spike in the registered users. It’s massive that Signal servers’ could handle the load and went inaccessible for more than 24 hours. It clearly states that users all over the world are more concerned about their data and the flow of information.

Parler the social media platform led by John Matze was suspended by Amazon keeping the allegations in mind that Trump supporters and far-right extremists organized US Capital on Jan’6 using this platform. Apple and Google also removed Parler’s app from the store once the evidence came out supporting the above allegations.

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