@TFFPrisoner i can tolerate hubs for conspiracy nonsense...

@TFFPrisoner i can tolerate hubs for conspiracy nonsense and extremism, but telegram is more than just another twitter + discord pretending to be secure — it belongs to a #russian and is probably transparent to #kgb, there are reports of opposition journalists having been misteriously arrested by russian police after exchanging encrypted messages over telegram.

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Dmitry Borodaenko

@tivasyk @TFFPrisoner Telegram is much like TikTok: way too beholden to an authoritarian regime to be trusted. I support the TikTok divestment act, and if Telegram goes down in flames I will shed no tears.

That doesn't stop me from calling out Zuckerberg's anti-competitive tactics. Facebook, due to its massive scale, does more harm globally than Telegram and TikTok combined, even though it's not overtly beholden (other than the Milner investment) to Russia or China. Delenda fucking est.

21 March at 21:13 | Open on mastodon.social

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@angdraug @tivasyk @TFFPrisoner Wasn't Durov outside of Russia since 2014? Like, the man literally created VK and gave up on it because it couldn't keep up with their censorship requests.

21 March at 22:31 | Open on libranet.de