You object to the business model of the free service you subscribe to? That’s what you basically said. I want to use Google’s free email service. I agreed to allow them to collect my data and target me with ads as is their business model. But I object to them collecting my data to target me with ads. That doesn’t make any sense.

Spear fishing and so on are still a thing. Scams via regular SMS messages? Still a thing. It absolutely is profitable to target one person depending on how you target them and what you get in return. These scams and the businesses and companies that fight them are constantly playing whack a mole. They wouldn’t bother to continue trying to scam via email and SMS if it wasn’t profitable still.

Saying Telegram has to monitor their users and the content sent via the service and suggesting that they should (as an extension of that) violate the privacy of the users to monitor them all for illegal activity because they have “no reasonable expectation of privacy” is an interesting take. Even the police are supposed to subpoena your texts if they can show reasonable cause.

You’re throwing reasonable cause out the window. If it’s an app for private messaging the people who use it have the expectation that their messages are private. This isn’t a forum we’re talking about. It’s not twitch. They are sending messages to a specific recipient. They aren’t making a public post on Facebook.