Yeah, the chances that it’s backdoored are pretty high
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vxx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So signal and YouTube gets banned, but telegram is allowed to operate?
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yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 4 months ago
They tried to block Telegram before and Telegram staged a counter offensive with proxies that kept them online in Russia and made the Kremlin look like fools.
AFAIK Telegram has much higher market share in Russia. Keep in mind it’s easier for an authoritarian to “flex” and block smaller fish.
pop@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
But but but… the wankies told me Signal Superior was the one and only messaging app capable of circumventing censorship and Telegram is a Russian psyop app with no means of circumventing censorship, which is why most prominent anti-ruzzian channels are on it.