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It’s been a difficult few days I’m not going to lie.

My colleagues want Telegram completely shut down in every country due to online child safety concerns such as CSAM. It’s been a little bit difficult for me to constantly be the one who risks my career to say that survivors also deserve digital privacy rights and strong encryption as well as every human on planet earth.

Telegram can be removed but as a society and as survivor advocates we won’t have addressed the root causes of the abuse and so the problem will continue, unfortunately.

The precious time that is being spent attacking Telegram would have been better spent educating the youth and parents about online safety. This would have worked towards preventing these crimes before they happen and end up online in the first place. 💔
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Sovereign Being 1y ago

Do they pretend like this doesn't exist on most if not all the other platforms? If not, are they calling for those to be shutdown too?

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freemymind 🇨🇭 1y ago

No it is just the fact that Telegram has the keys. So how can one be this naive, to think this keys will not be used to decrypt all chats?

It is always the same. There is just no good rason why to build on trust in things where no trust is needed. Use e2ee services that do not log and save metadata. There is not that much they could share even if they comly fully.