The app is particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union

You realize there are so many right wing extremists there that they would have been banned had they been using other services?

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You realize it is just chat except it doesn’t show your phone number to every doxxer or FSB agent?

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You relaize that the same could be said about Signal?

Telegram has public groups which function nearly identical to social media. Signal does not.

If Amazon AWS began hosting nazi websites and refused to take them down, should the CEO be arrested? I’d say yes.

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imo the major difference is no algorithm or suggestions

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