Pavel Durov
🎉 Telegram has reached 10 million paid subscribers. 10 million people are now enjoying Telegram Premium! 🆕 Today, we’re introducing new features while phasing out a few outdated ones. ⛔️ We’ve removed the People Nearby feature, which was used by less than…
🟡 Durov announces two feature cuts in Telegram, and “development” of censorship .
This will satisfy the French "judicial" bureaucrats.
🔶 The first dismantling is to remove the addition of images in articles published on Telegraph ... Because some people send bad images. This means that articles like these are now impossible to create and even to modify. Obviously, these must have particularly annoyed Westerners. Here they are satisfied.
Similarly, those who embedded images in their Telegram articles by hosting them on Telegraph will have to find alternative hosting.
So we have confirmation: bureaucracy is indeed a communicable disease, French bureaucrats have contaminated the ecosystem of our beloved messaging service. We particularly "like" the extremism implemented in this unjustified decision and the absence of notice that would have allowed adding a notification in the articles to refer readers to the new host.
My Telegraph articles containing an image become impossible to edit, articles in progress cannot be completed.
If the logic continues, we will no longer be able to send images, videos and files on Telegram, because some users publish bad content there. Then it will be the turn of the text? This is really a rotten decision, to remain polite and courteous in this public version.
🔺 The people who linked their Telegraph account to their Telegram account being perfectly identified , could at least have been allowed to continue using Telegraph normally ‼️
This tells us about the future. At any time, an important feature can be destroyed to satisfy French bureaucratic requirements. It's all well and good to take advantage of this to celebrate 10 million premium users, but this is not the time to invest in an ecosystem that is being dismantled .
👉 Well, you will have understood my appreciation of the trend that our messaging is taking under French influence. It was unfortunately predictable, and I expect much worse.
➡️ To respond to this destruction of Telegraph and this desire to push out journalists and bloggers, there is of course the choice of writing articles on LiveJournal, VK or other platforms, there is no lack of competition.
💡 First of all, there is one trick left, the one I had adopted from the beginning, which consists of using a Telegram channel as file hosting . If the channel disappears, the article loses its content, if it is geographically censored, displaying the images requires the use of a VPN.
😐 Eventually, we will end up migrating to other platforms. This is unfortunate, because Telegram and its associated services were technically a superb achievement that we will not find again any time soon with the competition, they were extremely practical to use. We will have to return to the quagmire of separate platforms, poorly designed, not optimized, paying at an exorbitant price, filled with ads, without cross-platform applications, without a set of extremely useful integrated services etc. But it will be done if necessary, very quickly and without going back.
Let us thank Durov for having exceptionally warned of this degradation of the service, all the authors would have searched for hours for the reason of a "technical problem".
🔶 The other dismantling is the officialization of the destruction of the functionality allowing to find other consenting Telegram users nearby. This will now be reserved for companies , because money is not the priority, of course, and it will be supervised .
🔶 In conclusion, he announces that 2024 will mark the transformation of Telegram with the development of censorship . Well, it's off to a good start, indeed, we're even catching up on the delayed semester!
👉 We understand that Paris suggests that he ask for permission to leave the territory ...
Via @ZZ_0Z_Z0ZZ_fr
#PavelDurov #Telegram #BigBrother
#Censorship
This will satisfy the French "judicial" bureaucrats.
🔶 The first dismantling is to remove the addition of images in articles published on Telegraph ... Because some people send bad images. This means that articles like these are now impossible to create and even to modify. Obviously, these must have particularly annoyed Westerners. Here they are satisfied.
Similarly, those who embedded images in their Telegram articles by hosting them on Telegraph will have to find alternative hosting.
So we have confirmation: bureaucracy is indeed a communicable disease, French bureaucrats have contaminated the ecosystem of our beloved messaging service. We particularly "like" the extremism implemented in this unjustified decision and the absence of notice that would have allowed adding a notification in the articles to refer readers to the new host.
My Telegraph articles containing an image become impossible to edit, articles in progress cannot be completed.
If the logic continues, we will no longer be able to send images, videos and files on Telegram, because some users publish bad content there. Then it will be the turn of the text? This is really a rotten decision, to remain polite and courteous in this public version.
🔺 The people who linked their Telegraph account to their Telegram account being perfectly identified , could at least have been allowed to continue using Telegraph normally ‼️
This tells us about the future. At any time, an important feature can be destroyed to satisfy French bureaucratic requirements. It's all well and good to take advantage of this to celebrate 10 million premium users, but this is not the time to invest in an ecosystem that is being dismantled .
👉 Well, you will have understood my appreciation of the trend that our messaging is taking under French influence. It was unfortunately predictable, and I expect much worse.
➡️ To respond to this destruction of Telegraph and this desire to push out journalists and bloggers, there is of course the choice of writing articles on LiveJournal, VK or other platforms, there is no lack of competition.
💡 First of all, there is one trick left, the one I had adopted from the beginning, which consists of using a Telegram channel as file hosting . If the channel disappears, the article loses its content, if it is geographically censored, displaying the images requires the use of a VPN.
😐 Eventually, we will end up migrating to other platforms. This is unfortunate, because Telegram and its associated services were technically a superb achievement that we will not find again any time soon with the competition, they were extremely practical to use. We will have to return to the quagmire of separate platforms, poorly designed, not optimized, paying at an exorbitant price, filled with ads, without cross-platform applications, without a set of extremely useful integrated services etc. But it will be done if necessary, very quickly and without going back.
Let us thank Durov for having exceptionally warned of this degradation of the service, all the authors would have searched for hours for the reason of a "technical problem".
🔶 The other dismantling is the officialization of the destruction of the functionality allowing to find other consenting Telegram users nearby. This will now be reserved for companies , because money is not the priority, of course, and it will be supervised .
🔶 In conclusion, he announces that 2024 will mark the transformation of Telegram with the development of censorship . Well, it's off to a good start, indeed, we're even catching up on the delayed semester!
👉 We understand that Paris suggests that he ask for permission to leave the territory ...
Via @ZZ_0Z_Z0ZZ_fr
#PavelDurov #Telegram #BigBrother
#Censorship
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Kristofer Goldsmith, founder of Task Force Butler 501c3, is scraping and saving everything you do on #Telegram.
He’s a self described “#Nazi Hunter” and is fighting against 1A free speech while simultaneously benefiting from tax exempt status.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/video/the-neo-nazi-hunter/
https://t.me/Night_Nation_Review
Episode 999
#stalking #surveillance #zionism #censorship
He’s a self described “#Nazi Hunter” and is fighting against 1A free speech while simultaneously benefiting from tax exempt status.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/video/the-neo-nazi-hunter/
https://t.me/Night_Nation_Review
Episode 999
#stalking #surveillance #zionism #censorship