Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ — In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html
20 Comments
XLE@piefed.social · 136 pts · 141d
On a Telegram group chat. In other words, in plain text on a popular social network.
Regulators, take note about how encryption isn't preventing you from finding crimes. (As if the Epstein emails weren't enough evidence.)
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 75 pts · 141d
This is the lesson from the epstein files: encryption is not stopping crime from being stopped. Something else is, focus on that.
yakko@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 141d
The people pushing those laws super don't care 😒
rimu@piefed.social · 10 pts · 141d
Without reading the article I knew it would be Terrorgram.
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 140d
was the group actually unencrypted or are you just assuming that because it is the default setting in telegram?
XLE@piefed.social · 15 pts · 140d
The group is unencrypted because it's not possible to encrypt group chats in Telegram, because Telegram is that bad.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 140d
They're probably assuming the chats aren't encrypted because telegram doesn't encrypt those. Source
Telegram says they don't encrypt them and tries to imply that people who actually know how to use cryptography failed to solve this problem because they couldn't solve it with their shitty self rolled 'encryption' algo that hasn't been peer reviewed (unlike the signal protocol)
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 57 pts · 141d
So they can all be caught without mass surveillance? In other words they knew about Epstein for years but ignored it until his victims started to talk.
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 141d
To be fair, they ignored it even after his victims started to talk.
devolution@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 141d
Yet somehow gays are response for making marraige a joke.
Utterly revolting these monsters are.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 141d
I’ve heard this excuse before and countered effectively with drive-through weddings and the national divorce rate.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 141d
Do these men know that they just have to listen and communicate with their wives and they will naturally wanna fuck them? Like the drugs are just sex with their wives with extra steps.
homoludens@feddit.org · 55 pts · 141d
It's not about sex, it's about power.
db2@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 141d
It's not about the sex for people like that.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 13 pts · 141d
These crimes are always about power and control, not about sex. I think a part of it comes from feeling powerless (or having felt powerless long ago) in other areas of life. This is obviously no excuse and absolutely abhorrent behavior, but as we can read in the article these men will walk the streets again after a few years, so psychotherapy for them should be mandatory, with their sentences extended if the therapist thinks it's necessary to prevent further victims.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 141d
I understand the sentiment, but that's not how it works either. People aren't that simple.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 140d
I did not make it far into that. Christ. Wtf is wrong with people. 4chan ruined so many people, I remember that site being posted there, it was like an achive for some of the posts on b. That is a whole new low for it though.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 119d
im still debating if I can handle clicking the link based on comments.
rustyfish@piefed.world · 9 pts · 141d
Again? And again on telegram?
Is this old news?
Edit: Nope. I was thinking of cases in Singapore.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 140d
Well this sounds fucking horrible.