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Give me a break, open telegram, which is still in the clear for comrade musk and he publicly advocated for comrade durov and tell me how long it will take you to find anything from prostitution to weapons, drugs and human trafficking. It's all about punishing people who can question musk & co's authoritarian desires.

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Feds can request info from Telegram. Additionally, Telegram has evolved past a simple messenger application. A massive amount of projects, most of them being crypto projects, use Telegram as their primary method of communication and announcements. It is also a very popular messenger in India and parts of Europe. They can block Signal because they can get away with it. If it means banning a bunch of CSAM traders and drug dealers, even if it includes a few users and privacy nerds, they're still winning in terms of easing up their moderation efforts without significant outcry. I believe this block will be lifted, even if Signal users a minority, they are a loud minority. This could have very well been a mistake.

Are you seriously this delusional? All other messengers offer e2e encryption in one form or another and the "feds" can't request shit. The only difference is that signal does it out of the box, instead of being buried 20 layers deep in menus and unlike the other messengers(including telegram) is not false advertising and is a crime in the civilized world under data protection laws. So much for free speech(which btw is not news when it comes to musk and anyone with a functioning brain). Comrade musk is in a position where he can mass execute newborn babies on Time square in broad daylight and his simps and entire government will praise him.

What I've said is from the perspective of a hypothetical moderation team at Twitter that has enacted this change, a change that will most likely be reversed, and was probably a mistake. Additionally, you are breaking the site's guidelines. This comment thread has very little to do with Elon Musk, please direct your rage somewhere else.

It's not rage, it's realism - musk is a classic example of extreme stalinism. If there are dozens of such instances on weekly basis and comrade musk is the one behind them, it's naive to think that this one isn't. Especially when it something that hurts his fragile ego. Which is not a secret anymore since plenty of his former employees have come forward. Hell, even the present day ones are coming forward but anonymously out of fear.

>This comment thread has very little to do with Elon Musk, please direct your rage somewhere else.

Backatcha. If it's about twitter, specifically 'x', musk has a lot to do with it...somewhere in the region of 100%. It may be unfortunate, but that's just the way it is. And he's the reason many stay away from it. As another poster asked, why do you (continue to) use it? Similarly, someone (else) is highly likely to mention a certain brand of vehicles but not me.

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