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šæ Telegram Opens Its Black Box
Telegram has flipped on its stance of complete privacy and anonymity
GM. Happy Tuesday. It's officially Fall, and crypto has been quietly creeping back up.
In other news, Sam Altman posted a blog claiming āsuperintelligenceā is coming within just a few thousand days. So we got that going for us, which is nice.
We hope we donāt have any organized criminal readers using Telegram, cause your time is up.
Without Further Ado. ā *knuckle cracks* ā Letās get into it.
Telegram Opens Its Black Box
Telegram, cryptoās favorite encrypted messaging app, has flipped on its long standing stance of complete privacy and anonymity.
What exactly is the change?
Telegram will provide usersā IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid legal requests, according to Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov.
Why is this happening?
Last month, Pavel Durov was arrested and charged with a number of crimes. Icymi, hereās some of the charges brought against him:
Complicity in the organized gang distribution of images of minors of a child pornographic nature
Drug trafficking
Organized gang fraud
Criminal conspiracy to commit crimes or misdemeanors
In response to the ongoing case, which we really donāt know much about, Pavel announced the change yesterday. We donāt want to speculate on the criminal side, thatās not our expertise. If you want to read more into the criminal activity on telegram, hereās a comprehensive piece.
Why should I care? Iām not a high level criminal.
These charges are serious of course. We DO NOT condone gang orgs doing child porn. But we also understand that this is about more than just this case.
The concept of a CEO being arrested for activities and content on the platform he manages being enforceable is a very dangerous precedent for crypto and all of the internet.
Are there bad people on telegram? Certainly. Should every CEO with a social platform be imprisoned because there are bad people on it? We donāt think so. Such drastic measures will probably lead to less collaboration between tech and government, not more.
Itās also concerning that a CEO can trade user data access for personal or company troubles. We arenāt arguing that authorities shouldnāt be able to have access to information that could stop terrorists. But we are saying that you should be careful with any information on a centralized platform, even if it is a āblack boxā.
How could this affect growth?
Telegramās growth can without a doubt be directly attributed to its assumed privacy and anonymity. Everyone reading this already knows that. So if the dominoes start to fall and that black box gets shattered, do you think a significant amount of users will leave telegram?
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