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Group punishments are bullshit
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Group punishments are bullshit
And specifically against the Geneva conventions, lol! (When applied against groups of POWs.)
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yeah coming from India this doesn't surprise me.
Don’t use centralized tools that can easily be blocked. This would’ve been basically impossible if they used delta chat
Edit: barely privacy related because everything you do in a Telegram group is visible to Telegram administrators and will be controlled through their international partnerships. They already self-censored in Indonesia.
All telegram messages are sent unencrypted by default. It's possible to encrypt 1-on-1 chats by going through a convoluted process, but group messages can't be encrypted.
If you care about privacy at all, don't use telegram.
They think telegram is the only way to do it. 🙄
They can block everyone? How? I mean a vpn would work, yeah?
Banned for cheating but banned for being used by scam centers. Naaa.
This happens around Africa once in a while. Kenya, Ghana, and a couple other counties will have a panic and just ban SMS messages, or internet, or Facebook nationally for a day because of one paranoid minister of education. Kenya did the same thing with Telegram not long ago.
Though... Who uses Telegram that isn't an idiot kid or Russian scammer?
Poor oligarch who has to feel sad that their nerwork is cut of 150M people. So gentle of them to defend this voices of thos who have to use something else now.
Petrov was de facto banned from Russia for refusing to fold into the government's requests to influence vkontakte? Dude's definitely too rich and has bad takes sometimes, but calling him an oligarch makes no sense
Ok. Not rich and impactfull enough to be an oligarch. But a person wining online when their business is impacted and saying it is an attack on millions of people which isn't.
But telegram does have millions of users in India. Sure the attack part is slightly hyperbolic, but they were all impacted
Then he should instead make them heard. Propose a way to structure, complain, ... support them.
Not using the power doesn't remove it from his grasp. The really rich owner class are oligarchs, even if some of them act benevolently or at least not like the trash they could be.