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Trifecta of bad Internet discourse here. A Russian who runs a chat service that competes with inferior services beloved by nerds is arrested on nebulous charges related to his platform being somewhat censorship resistant. Beware ye who enter

This tends to happen whenever there is any tinge of geopolitics in the discussion. That subject has a remarkable ability of making monkeys out of people.

this correlates with the telegram userbase

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486170>

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Though yes, this thread is overall quite low quality. Sigh.