Iraq Blocks Telegram Access In The Country Citing 'Privacy Concerns'

The ministry said in a statement it had asked the app to close down "platforms that leak the data of the official state institutions and the personal data of citizens... but the company did not respond and did not interact with any of these requests."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/iraq-blocks-access-to-telegram-due-to-privacy-concerns/

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freedom tech fixes this ๐Ÿซก

Wasn't Telegram supposed to be "freedom tech"?

Never ever.

Another shithole country blocking Telegram....

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Then @lnp2pbot is also down for them.

@negrunch when Mostro?

A little birdie told me "Telegram bad", so I use matrix instead

Depends on your use case if Matrix is the right candidate. If you want to minimize trusted parties that could gather personal information then SimpleX might be the better option.

I think #Nostr can fix this with decentralized relays.

tfw Iraq is more based than your bitcoin meetup