When Eva Galperin heard that Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging service Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend, she quickly got in touch with French privacy and legal experts.
Because almost nobody uses Matrix compared to Telegram. And it’s not even about if some people can slip through the fingers of western intel services, it’s about controlling the narrative and putting the clamps on information and telegram is almost as much of a news site as it’s a live chat. Telegram is just popular enough that it pokes holes into narratives and harms the mainstream media bubble.
Why even bother arresting Telegram’s CEO when Matrix is a thing.
Because almost nobody uses Matrix compared to Telegram. And it’s not even about if some people can slip through the fingers of western intel services, it’s about controlling the narrative and putting the clamps on information and telegram is almost as much of a news site as it’s a live chat. Telegram is just popular enough that it pokes holes into narratives and harms the mainstream media bubble.
Why even bother fining VW for Dieselgate when Tesla is a thing
What does that even mean???