The National Court orders to block Telegram in Spain - GEARRICE
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Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court has ordered the blocking of the Telegram messaging platform in Spain. This is a precautionary measure in response
  • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

    • TyrantTW@kbin.social
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      4 months ago

      They do, but this is coming from a right-dominated tribunal known to be extremely conservative and reactionary in nature.

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Just use Signal if you want an easy, relatively privacy friendly and secure messenger.

      Telegram hands over data to goverments, is infested with spammers and scammers and its encryption is not end to end for group chat which lets Telegram access those chats.

      Edit: Telegram is great for lots of things like big groups, communities, piracy, drugs etc but its just not the place where you should expect secure communication.

      • turkishdelight@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I’m not using Signal as long as Signal Foundation is based in the US. Also Signal is not on FDroid, so I can’t use it anyway.

        • Schlemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          4 months ago
          • You can schedule messages
          • Have supergroups, subgroups, broadcasts, admin roles in groups,…
          • Channels can be configured in various ways. For example, you can post messages and choose the type of previews links render.
          • You can add voting options to posts
          • Members of the channel can only reply in threads so the replies are bundled.
          • You can decide wheter new group members can view chat history or not.
          • Members can be muted.
          • Bots can be built withing the app
          • Chats can be arranged in folders *…

          I could go on.