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Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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Amazing how "think of the children" became so prevalent these past few months when we've had all these ongoing attacks on online privacy by governments. We used to laugh at the government when they used this argument, now I see people willingly use it to argue for forced digital identity.
It’s the other way around, 20,30 years ago it didn’t need any explanation to keep hard porn or people being shot in the face out of the reach of minors. Nowadays kids share gruesome videos from the Ukraine battlefield and porn with one another, a whole generation is growing up that thinks strangulation during sex is “quite ok”. And it is platforms like these that constantly try and cross the borders. Sorry lads, if you think protection of minors from this kind of material is censure or old-fashioned, grow up, inform yourself where censure starts and protection of families and kids ends and most of all: DONT get kids. If you think telegram or twitter or Facebook are in business to improve our lives, or to protect us from censure, you obviously have no clue.
30 years ago people were assuming the government is wiretapping their phones. Now you're here begging the government to wiretap the internet because "we need to protect kids". Sure thing, buddy, this is going to all work out just fine. It's not like we're seeing in real time what governments are doing with people who disagree with them and just how much they want something like Palantir to control and cut down all "dissent". But hey, at least kids won't see some scary videos. Oh, you won't see the videos of police beating up immigrants or protestors, but who cares, right? Kids will be safe!
Here in Europe I’ve never had the feeling the government was wiretapping my phone?