While Telegram has plenty of channels and groups dedicated to apolitical subjects like Bollywood movies and Miami’s tech scene, it has proven particularly well suited to activism. Its blend of private messaging and public channels makes it a perfect organizing tool: ideal for evangelizing in public and then plotting in secret. “I call it the one-two punch,” says Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University in North Carolina who studies Telegram. “You can do both propaganda and planning on the same app.”
Oh no, not organizing! Basically as long as the right people organize on the platform it’s ok. This is western freedom of speech in a nutshell. People are free to say whatever they like as long as it doesn’t actually challenge the system.
The reason western propagandists were able to push the whole freedom of speech narrative is because life in the west used to be better than the rest of the world. Now that material conditions in the west are declining, people are starting to become angry at their governments. This is a big problem for western state propagandists, because all of a sudden people are exercising their free speech in a way that challenges the system.
People have been guzzling this kool aid all their lives, and now they’re seeing that you can’t just challenge the government the way you’ve been told that you could. They’re seeing the veneer of democracy peeling off.
english journalists trying to make an article that doesn’t revolve around the us challenge (impossible)
nice article otherwise though :)
telegram is indeed a peculiarity in the modern technological scene, as the article puts it, at first i was a little disappointed that telegram doesn’t follow the traditional oss path, with all the related challenges and benefits, but over time, i thought, telegram probably has a cocnrete plan, and it’s successful obviously
maybe telegram deliberately chose this on-the-edge position (not fully open source, but not completely proprietary; not fully transparent, but also clearly provides some insight; not completely ad-free, but also not excessively commercialized), and it’s a part of what makes it so successful: combining the best parts of both “sides”, so to speak idk 🤷♀️
I dislike that they ask for my phone number. i realize bots spamming on social media is part of the reasonf, but I still feel it is invasive.
for now it’s the best option unfortunately
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Uhm, I’ve been able to access the full article no problem when it was published. I guess they paywalled it later. I will add the archived article link
Relevant discussion courtesy a cat and me https://lemmy.ml/post/61839/comment/51884
