If you do this on WhatsApp, your account will be blocked: Many unsuspecting users have already done it
Created: 01/12/2022, 10:24 AM
From: Andreas Knobloch
Even on the platform you can quickly send something via WhatsApp - but be careful!
The messenger service does not tolerate everything.
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WhatsApp is not a playground where everything is allowed, in the messenger service there are also rules, whoever disregards them, flies.
Munich - Messenger services are indispensable these days.
Fast communication in the large WhatsApp group helps many.
Somebody discovers a funny meme and sends it to everyone.
Or someone has access behind a newspaper's payment barrier and takes a screenshot - but stop, you should stop doing that immediately.
In WhatsApp this could mean that even your group chat is deleted.
This is shown by a case from India reported by the Torrentfreak portal.
Torrentfreak is a very well-known blog that mainly deals with copyright, file sharing, data protection and the like.
WhatsApp: watch out!
If you do this, your group will be deleted or the account will be locked out
It is generally known that guidelines are already anchored in the General Terms of Use, which provide for the WhatsApp account to be blocked if these are violated.
For example, suspicious group names would be a reason.
This should prevent content that glorifies violence or is pornographic.
If you send too many spam messages or malicious codes, the service could intervene.
Even changing phone numbers too often would be a suspicious move.
Now WhatsApp has probably deleted several groups in India because copyrighted content was passed on to a large extent in this group.
This can be, for example, screenshots from portals that are subject to payment.
Many users, unsuspecting or without thinking, have certainly already passed on such content to their contacts.
Everyone should be made aware to be more careful with such things.
WhatsApp: Sharing paid journalistic content could be bitter for you
In India, a large newspaper group filed a criminal complaint against the sharing of its publications in WhatsApp groups, wrote Torrentfreak on December 28, 2021. There should be a hearing this year, but by then the service has deleted all groups concerned as a precaution .
The reason for the publisher is logical: If you share paid content, you prevent new readers from being recruited.
Accused WhatsApp groups were only created for the purpose of distributing the publisher's content.
The hearing is scheduled to take place in early May 2022.
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