Liberté égalité no dissente
you know Telegram is secure when governments are trying to arrest the founder.
The French kidnapping of Pavel Durov is a huge violation of human rights.
Alternatively: It is not (and generally not even encrypted) and he just happened to be in contempt.
Plenty of military-oriented and shady-business going in in there.
There’s still the possibility that the authorities wanted to go after specific someones with a proper warrant and Durov blocked it. No country on earth goes for that.
We’ll get to know the charges soon enough.
During my time as an amateur disinfo researcher I found that ALL the fascist groups are on Telegram. Also all the antivaxers, qanon nuts, maga, conspiracy theorists the lot. One big fash melting pot.
Telegram needs to be shut down, years ago.
And you think that’s only on Telegram, there’s also groups on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram… are they going to arrest Mark Zuckerberg?
If Telegram is shutdown today, those groups will move to other platforms, it could be also Lemmy.
Is not about ilegal activities, but privacy, you can have a private (E2EE) or one where governments watch all private messages.
It’s okay to not tolerate hatred, fascists and misinformation.
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society’s practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.
You are the fascist who we should not tolerate.
Telegram is used by almost 1 billion people. Yet you want to shut it down because of political disagreement with what some of those people say.
So, instead of fixing the cesspool we just designate a place for them? Why not just going after the ones committing crimes and state that big public groups must have moderation for basic shit? (Like no death threats and that kind of “moderation”, not a "I don’t like your opinions)
He was travelling from Azerbaijan, where he had been meeting with Putin. There is a theory that he knew he would be arrested and chose to go there to avoid retaliation and falling out of a window.
That would be a wild story.
“Putin killed by Telegram CEO, Russia in chaos”
