“Telegram is not a private messenger. There’s nothing private about it. It’s the opposite. It’s a cloud messenger where every message you’ve ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that Telegram the organization controls and has access to it”
“It’s like a Russian oligarch starting an unencrypted version of WhatsApp, a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. Somehow, they’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives in Russia, and their families are there.”
" What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. So that’s in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone’s like, oh, France. But I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn’t have access to the data and couldn’t respond to that same request. To me it’s very obvious that Russia would’ve had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment"
Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren’t, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.
Nope I wouldn’t even know how to start doing that. The last convo I had was with some dude I used to know who’s been hanging out with Zionists because he’s in the psytrance scene. He started talking about how there are to many people on earth and we need to get rid of some of them stop climate change, he was also ranting that single fathers have no rights (which isn’t true in the place where I live). I told him that he’s being kinda fascist and then the next day I was banned, maybe he reported me but I didn’t want to give telegram my full name so I was just like fuck this platform. All I wanted from that guy was to get some synths back that I lent him.
Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.
It was a very funny joke.
Went right over my head.