{"id":48682,"date":"2021-01-19T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48682"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:22:47","slug":"now-telegram-is-under-serious-assault-from-big-tech-tyrants-and-deep-state-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48682","title":{"rendered":"Now Telegram is under serious assault from Big Tech<\/i> tyrants and Deep State<\/i> lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

CENSORSHIP<\/em><\/h4>\n

Lobby Group Sues Apple To REMOVE Telegram From App Store For Allowing \u2018Hate Speech\u2019<\/h1>\n

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Warns \u2018extremists\u2019 are set to \u201cmigrate to Telegram\u201d after Parler was successfully purged<\/h3>\n

Steve Watson
\nSUMMIT NEWS<\/p>\n

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Telegram Messenger logo on the App Store is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on January 14, 2021. Signal and Telegram messenger apps gained popularity due to the new WhatsApp’s privacy policy. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

A lobbyist group is suing Apple in an effort to get free speech messaging platform Telegram removed from the app store, claiming that it allows \u2018extremists\u2019 to spread \u2018hate speech\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Telegram<\/a>\u00a0has seen a surge in users since Twitter and Facebook permanently suspended President Trump. Last week the service gained more than 25 million new users in just 72 hours, taking the total users to over 500 million.<\/p>\n

The platform promotes itself as a service that believes in free speech and a strong privacy ethic, often\u00a0polarising itself\u00a0<\/a>from the likes of Facebook owned Watts App and Microsoft owned Skype.<\/p>\n

Now, amid calls for the platform to be restricted, lobby group\u00a0The Coalition for a Safer Web<\/a>\u00a0has called for it to be completely deleted from big tech app stores.<\/p>\n

In particular, the group has\u00a0filed a lawsuit against Apple<\/a>, alleging that it has failed to hold Telegram accountable for violating its terms of service.<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed in the US District Court for Northern California, accuses Telegram of allowing anti-Semites, neo-nazis and white supremacists to use the platform to foment hate.<\/p>\n

\u201cTelegram currently serves as the preferred neo-Nazi\/white nationalist communications channel, fanning anti-Semitic and anti-black incitement during the current wave of protests across America,\u201d\u00a0the lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n

It also states that \u2018extremists\u2019 are set to\u00a0\u201cmigrate to Telegram\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in bigger numbers following Apple, Google and Amazon\u2019s attempts to\u00a0wipe Parler off the internet<\/a>\u00a0completely.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit further alleges that Telegram\u00a0\u201cis currently being used to coordinate and incite extreme violence before the inauguration of President [-elect] Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coalition for a Safer Web\u2019s President, Marc Ginsberg, who is a former US ambassador to Morocco and deputy senior adviser to the US president on Middle East Policy, has claimed that \u201cBy continuing to host Telegram on the Apple App Store, [the] defendant (Apple) facilitates religious threats against him and his family that has caused Ambassador Ginsberg to fear for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit points to the purging of Parler as a precedent, noting that\u00a0\u201cApple has not taken any action against Telegram comparable to the action it has taken against Parler to compel Telegram to improve its content moderation policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group, which also has a Council on Foreign Relations executive, a former Chairman of the RNC, and a former Homeland Security chief\u00a0on its advisory board<\/a>, is also said to be preparing a lawsuit against Google for the same purpose of targeting Telegram.<\/p>\n

While Telegram has positioned itself against the big tech behemoths, it has made efforts to\u00a0remove \u2018neo-Nazi\u2019 channels<\/a>\u00a0from its platforms in recent months.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Parler reemerged on the internet Sunday, after Amazon unceremoniously wiped it from its hosting servers.<\/p>\n

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