#Telegram has just updated (obviously under the pressure) their ToS and TG haters all over my feeds are loosing their shit about announced sharing users IP/phone number in response to "valid legal requests". While what exactly makes a request legal remains to be seen, some thoughts come to mind:
1) don't other messengers such as WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Facebook, Gmail, iMessage, Threema, etc. provide the same information to authorities on request? If they don't what makes TG target of government attack, if the do what the fuzz is about?
2) according to haters telegram has been leaking information to Russia/Ukraine/Israel/USA/Saudi/China for years. If it's true, what the fuzz is about?
3) why do haters care so much about TG at all? Why not download Signal, SimpleX, or some other secure messenger and use it instead. Or maybe it's just a virtue signalling? Or maybe, just maybe most the fuzz actually comes form bots payed by competitors and not from concerned, security focused TG users?
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