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   evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 03:05:31 JST evacide

   Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

   https://t.me/durov/274

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     Esra'a (alshafei@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 02:45:46 JST Esra'a

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     @evacide It gets a bit worse, Telegram has a long-standing relationship with a Saudi organization that's essentially a govt arm in Riyadh, working in direct partnership to analyze and monitor an obscene amount of user data: https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/641746/SAUDI-ARABIA/Etidal-Telegram-remove-over-16-million-extremist-contents-in-early-2024

     They claim this only targets terrorist groups. I can verify that it absolutely impacts groups run by queer communities in the Gulf, because I was in one such group that was monitored and shut down by Etidal.

     Telegram can fuck off into the sunset.

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