It's unfortunate that Asmon has this mindset with this video in regard to the Telegram situation.
It doesn't seem like he understands that if you provide one backdoor access to get 1 bad guy, then the whole user base is fucked. Every single person. It removes one of the main pillars of said service.
With that said, he's contradicting himself when he (or others who share the same opinion) that Governments shouldn't oversee everyone's convo and surveil everything because having that backdoor would result in that.
Protecting the privacy of millions does not equal being complicit in aiding evil doers.
Pushing for governments to do this is pushing:
"The ends justify the means".
I'll leave this as him/others just not thinking this through or not understanding the scope and principles of it. Or just plain ignorance.
Perhaps he/others don't see that. And at this point, that's fine.
A piece of tech was created, #nostr , a protocol with no "CEO" to ask to comply and add a "backdoor", and a lot of amazing/smart people are building on top of it to enhance its privacy/encryption even more, and enhance relay/server operators to get as little data from users as possible.
So his/other's opinion on this, with this presented opinion, won't matter anymore, because they'll just have to only target and jail the evildoers, and not jail an uncomplying CEO, because there wouldn't be one. Oh, and they wouldn't be able to shut things down where things are inevitably headed.