We can apply his words to our situation

Unfortunately it’s only in Hungarian at the moment, but let’s keep an eye on it

Trump Supporter to Antifa smashing the Capitol building Windows: "Hey WTF Man! Are you Antifa? Are You Fucking Antifa? What are you Doing??"

All the while the crowd boos, this is clear evidence of who did what!

🛑 Two known Antifa members posed as pro-Trump to infiltrate Capitol riot: sources

@SidneyPowell1
via New York Post

Thank you TruFinancial Consultants for putting Montage for Hong Kong (香港画) post card in your office!

Please feel free to contact us if you wish to post posters or post card at your shop or restaurant. We can print and deliver them to you in Toronto area. Feel free to DM us.

#FreeHongKong
#FightForFreedom
#StandWithHongKong

Twitter appears to have removed tweet from Chinese Embassy which glorify CCP’s oppression of Uyghur women.

I hear Facebook has an entire department devoted to figuring out why Telegram is so popular. Imagine dozens of employees working on just that full-time.

I am happy to save Facebook tens of millions of dollars and give away our secret for free: respect your users.

Millions of people are outraged by the latest change in WhatsApp Terms, which now say users must feed all their private data to Facebook’s ad engine [1]. It’s no surprise that the flight of users from WhatsApp to Telegram, already ongoing for a few years, has accelerated.

At about 500 million users and growing, Telegram has become a major problem for the Facebook corporation. Unable to compete with Telegram in quality and privacy, Facebook’s WhatsApp seems to have switched to covert marketing: Wikipedia editors have recently exposed multiple paid bots adding biased information into the WhatsApp Wikipedia article [2].

We have also detected bots which spread inaccurate information about Telegram on social media. Here are the 3 myths they are pushing:

Myth 1. “Telegram’s code is not open-source”. In reality, all Telegram client apps have been open source since 2013 [3]. Our encryption and API are fully documented and have been reviewed by security experts thousands of times. Moreover, Telegram is the only messaging app in the world that has verifiable builds both for iOS and Android [4]. As for WhatsApp, they intentionally obfuscate their code, making it impossible to verify their encryption and privacy.

Myth 2. “Telegram is Russian”. In fact, Telegram has no servers or offices in Russia and was blocked there from 2018 to 2020 [5]. Telegram is still blocked in some authoritarian countries such as Iran, while WhatsApp and other “supposedly secure” apps have never had any issue in these places.

Myth 3. “Telegram is not encrypted”. Every chat on Telegram has been encrypted since launch. We have Secret Chats that are end-to-end and Cloud Chats that also offer real-time secure and distributed cloud storage [6]. WhatsApp, on the other hand, had zero encryption for a few years, and then adopted an encryption protocol funded by the US Government [7]. Even if we assume that the WhatsApp encryption is solid, it’s invalidated via multiple backdoors and reliance on backups [8].

In 2019 alone, Facebook spent almost 10 billion dollars on marketing [9] (I guess this includes paid bots on Wikipedia and other sites).

Unlike Facebook, Telegram doesn't spend any money, let alone billions of dollars, on marketing. We believe that people are smart enough to choose what is best for them. And, judging by the half a billion people using Telegram, this belief is justified.

[1] – WhatsApp Gives Users Ultimatum – Share Data with Facebook or Lose Access
[2] – In December 2020, the Wikipedia article about WhatsApp had the label “This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use”. Related investigation is discussed here.
[3] – Telegram Source Code
[4] – Reproducible Builds for Telegram Apps
[5] – On Digital Resistance in Russia
[6] – On Telegram Encryption
[7] – U.S. Government Funded The WhatsApp Encryption
[8] – Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
[9] – Facebook Marketing Spending from 2010 to 2019

A lot similar with what had happened in Hong Kong so far. There was no need for a gunshot. It’s sad. But, it’s there, paving way for the end of democracy, in ways. #CCP must be rejoicing seeing all of this. It’s time for the world to wake up, and recognize #DemocracyFirst and put an end to evil regimes globally. Just like Hong Kong is #EastBerlin today, tomorrow could be another city, anybody’s place.

Dear #Canadians,
Please sign this petition to ensure Canada reduce its dependency on #China's product.

There are numerous reports showing that #CCPChina has been using #Uyghurs as slaves to make products that exports to the world. It is time for everyone to realize that all countries around the world need to stop relying on China as a global manufacturer.

Please sign the petition below:
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3094

🇫🇷👨🏻‍💻 WE ASKED DUROV ABOUT CENSORSHIP AND TELEGRAM.

🙏🏻 Here is his answer


👉🏻 TL;DR :

1️⃣ Durov is obviously aware of the problem posed by Google and Apple, which form a "duopoly".


2️⃣ Durov considers that Apple and Google are much more dangerous than Twitter or Facebook. Because Google and Apple can simply ban applications from their stores. Twitter can "just" ban users.


3️⃣ As such, Durov promptly advises to migrate from iOS to Android. Because even if Android isn't perfect, at least you can install independent APKs.


4️⃣ Telegram does not intend to comply with the censorship ultimatums of the AppStore and PlayStore. If ever Telegram is removed from these platforms, there will be two solutions:
➡️ Telegram will share an "official" APK
➡️ Telegram is working on a "browser" version of Telegram... for mobile! That is to say that Telegram will be usable without an application, optimized for phones. Telegram will thus become 100% independent of any store.

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💻 Official updates from Durov here

Joint statement on arrests in Hong Kong 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦