The Telegram Billionaire and His Dark Empire

spiegel.de

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> ” Telegram, arguably the world’s most dangerous messenger service”

The sentence where I stoped reading. This is not a serious article. It’s FUD.

I agree, but it is interesting because it reveals what many influential people must be thinking about apps like Telegram.

These people are so desperate to shut down certain speech. How many articles have there been disparaging Telegram?

This is a hit piece. None of the angle taken there is specific to Telegram, it could be applied equally to e-mail.

Email is decentralized well enough, with the hosting providers both legally liable and visible. Telegram isn't.

The e-mail equivalent would be something like Matrix/IRC.

> Telegram, arguably the world’s most dangerous messenger service.

yet again, unfettered conversations, very frighting for traditional media outlets.

It's rather telling that spiegel chose this particular topic for its international section just days after the german Bundestag approved further public surveillance measures. With this new law federal police and all 19 intelligence services in Germany will be allowed to hack into suspects' computers and smartphones. And also the Snowden revelations just had their anniversary today. spiegel: crickets

So the Russian authorities can and will pretty much get anyone in the country and out but the OMON just left the doorstep of this particular guy? Why might that be?

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