Telegram is NOT an "encrypted messenger." It supports end-to-end encryption ONLY if it is turned on (not by default) and ONLY for single-user chats, never for groups the way Signal, WhatsApp and iMessage do by default. I can't believe that this myth persists.https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1349341628855693315 …
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If folks mean non-public (say, unlike Twitter which is generally public), well Facebook groups are also non-public, much more widely used than Twitter already, and that is an *entirely different* distinction. Twitter DMs are also non-public and used a lot.
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Also, folks, Durov (Telegram's founder) is NOT a free speech absolutist. Europol (EU law enforcement agency) has congratulated Telegram on how well it did to fight ISIS on the platform—they can do it if they want because TELEGRAM GROUPS ARE NOT ENCRYPTED. https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1349351163284566016 …pic.twitter.com/CRzaimaPx2
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That was my poor attempt at a joke in reference to some inconsistencies in Telegram policies.
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Sorry to interrupt. As far as I understand: groups can be private (encrypted but non-e2e) or public (there's a setting in each group). What they did regarding extremism was for *public* groups and channels. For non e2e chats, Durov recently addressed ithttps://t.me/durov/145
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Everything on the web that's "https" is encrypted in transit like that. That's not what people think of when they see the word encrypted. It's not encrypted in the sense that it an read all the group messages. Non-public is something totally different: that's like Facebook group.
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