“Die Altparteien haben verabredet, die Corona-Zeit aus Wahlkämpfen herauszuhalten, und das hat – mithilfe der Mainstream-Medien – prima geklappt. Deshalb ist es nötig, vor der Bundestagswahl daran zu erinnern, wer alles hoch und heilig versprochen hat, es werde keine Impfpflicht geben und diese wenig später befürwortet und für große Teile der Bevölkerung auch beschlossen hat.”
“Die Altparteien haben verabredet, die Corona-Zeit aus Wahlkämpfen herauszuhalten, und das hat – mithilfe der Mainstream-Medien – prima geklappt. Deshalb ist es nötig, vor der Bundestagswahl daran zu erinnern, wer alles hoch und heilig versprochen hat, es werde keine Impfpflicht geben und diese wenig später befürwortet und für große Teile der Bevölkerung auch beschlossen hat.”
But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
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