Are any of you guys active on telegram? What do you think of it? Is it the best large platform for dissidents?

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Some good channel compilations for those starting out-

https://t.me/ChannelCollection

https://t.me/TERRORWAVERESTORED/217

It's ironic that the app the US likely clandestinely supported for years to assist dissidents in its adversaries has backfired. Many of the programs that are now used to fight against the System here was developed by the System itself to assist in foreign countries. Encrypted messaging, tor, telegram, etc. Only now is the US starting to properly censor the internet the way its adversaries have after years of pushing internet freedom for its own information warfare.

Good article on this

In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.

During the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, the United States helped secure digital freedoms for people living in authoritarian states. It gave them resources to support encryption and filter-evasion products that were designed to assist individuals in “circumventing politically motivated censorship,” as then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it in 2010. And it openly assisted Twitter and other U.S. tech platforms that seemed to be fueling the Arab Spring.

The First and Fourth Amendments as currently interpreted, and the American aversion to excessive government-private-sector collaboration, have stood as barriers to greater government involvement. Americans’ understanding of these laws, and the cultural norms they spawned, will be tested as the social costs of a relatively open internet multiply.

We are about to find out how this trade-off will be managed in the United States. The surveillance and speech-control responses to COVID-19, and the private sector’s collaboration with the government in these efforts, are a historic and very public experiment about how our constitutional culture will adjust to our digital future.

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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

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Are any of you guys active on telegram?

Not me

What do you think of it?

I don't like the fact I have to give a phone number. You can use a burner, but they are kind of a pain and can get expensive if it's one-use only

Is it the best large platform for dissidents?

Maybe. I trust a Russian platform way more than a Western one, at the very least

[–]Mr9to5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

First time I logged in, it told my friends who were on it that I logged in based off of my phone number. Is it too much to ask that the uber-private-dissident-friendly platform that everyone is exclusively on not do that?

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure there is a way to do that in settings, or at least prevent them from contacting you after the fact. I don't have any irl friends on telegram tho so idk.