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Pavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegram (www.reuters.com)
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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Conservatives in particular have, for culture war reasons, recently recommended Telegram—an “encrypted messaging” app that has many parts that are not encrypted and which does not have a clear governance structure—over Signal, an app that is open source and by all accounts uses one of the strongest encryption protocols ever created, on every chat that happens on the platform.

Refusing to keep your shit secret to own the libs