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russiaphobia at its best.

i am not a telegram user (was one years ago but have deleted the account back in 2018 i think,)

telegram does NOT advertise E2EE by default. it does not say it doesn't honor governmental requests for users data. case in point, https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/01/indian-court-orders-telegr...

indian high court orders telegram to disclose copyright violators details in order for the rights holder to prosecute them so its not like telegram has refused to accept their demand.

that said, https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/facebook-gave-teens-private-me...

recently facebook gave away a teen's abortion details to the police which got her in soup.

How is what is facebook doing fine by americans, because fb/meta is american and so whatever they do is automatically fine but god forbid someone else does the same thing.

someone will say "but law is like that, facebook has to share those details". well that applies to telegram also in russia so how is that different?

why do you have double standards for everything non-american and moreso if that happens to be india/iran/china/russia or any country that is currently on the american naughty list?

I don't use any Meta service for the same reason. But I was using Telegram because of a perceived better treatment of chat history and compatibility with people around me using it. But I didn't know the last actions from Pavel Durov... which seem totally in line with Meta's wrong-behavior.

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