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No? There's a pretty good reason every criminal used telegram. I've never seen any attempts at combatting anonymity much less censorship.
Likely TG got unbanned in Russia for cooperating with LEOs there, but while awful, that doesn't really matter if you're a westerner, even Ukrainian armed forces used it, and for the average substance enjoyer it was still much safer to use than any Five Eyes app due to its intentional highly decentralised complexity, and unlike Signal it actually works and is pleasant to use. Now they are straight up handing data over to British cops.
I thought Signal was the big one?
I have in my life met two people who used signal. They did it because I suggested it. They are both senior cybersec folks.
Huh? Worked for me.
Telegram literally only banned CSAM.
Source? Because they're pretty transparent about it and have only ever banned CSAM. If that's what you mean by "censorship" please KYS
Except that it was, and that's why people used it.
No it wasn't? It was literally the private anonymous messenger and that's why people used it.
No it wasn't, or they wouldn't have had to arrest Durov.
Yeah, but so is every good thing.
The subject matter at hand - Telegram. It was legally a complex mess of shell companies in weird jurisdictions. That's why the glowies couldn't touch it, the level of international cooperation it would require is far beyond the realistic means of any government. This is why they had to arrest Durov and offer him life in prison or to open up, there was nothing else they could do.
It would if any of these worked, or were used by anyone at all.
I don't want to self-host my criminal messenger, i live deep in five eyes shit.
I'm fine with that, as long as it's out of the glowies hands, but fella couldn't stay away from the hairy pits I guess