The only thing that’s changed since this conversation is the scale. Today, WhatsApp’s owner is privately laughing not at 4 thousand, but at 4 billion “dumb fucks” who trust his claims (like WhatsApp’s encryption). 📈🤡🔐

@InboxZero Yes, he admitted saying that — both to the court and the media. What kind of twisted mindset could produce this kind of thinking? 🤯

French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

@AureaLibe Weaponising child protection to legitimise censorship and mass surveillance is disgusting. These people will stop at nothing.

@esatoshiclub Bad risk–reward ratio. One-bullet list:
1. Stay away.

@marcus_herve Interesting read.

The US Congress has exposed the EU Commission for censoring political opponents for over a decade and interfering in at least 8 elections across 6 European countries. This is consistent with the French gov’s attempts to force Telegram to censor speech in…

Today, Telegram notified all its users in Spain with this alert:

Pedro Sánchez’s government is pushing dangerous new regulations that threaten your internet freedoms. Announced just yesterday, these measures could turn Spain into a surveillance state under…

@AbhinavRaj22935 @telegram Telegram has disclosed ZERO bytes of messaging data to third-parties throughout its history. And we’d rather shut down the entire project than ever start doing it.

@AureaLibe I’ve done it before, and I will do it again. France is at the source of the problem.

@mickal Is there a whitepaper describing your approach?

@ItsThomAnt Yes, they are building surveillance infrastructure. As for minors, they will simply switch to fringe, unregulated platforms and VPNs — and end up less protected.

The “free” French press resorted to xenophobia to discredit me — and it backfired spectacularly. The French people see through labels and state propaganda. Love them! ❤️

@THEJAMIEVANZIJL GrapheneOS (Pixel phones without Google’s spyware) is great for privacy. The fact that the French state attacks it via prosecutors and the media is a mark of its quality.

@TheWatcherOX2 I didn’t realize how bad things really were with the French media until I started following them.