Telegram will disclose users' phones and IP addresses to authorities at their requests, the messengers' founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on September 23.
If a friend was sending their pretty legally obtained books that they downloaded from different website via the TOR browser to themselves via Telegram to have an easy way to download them on their tablet, should they stop that and connect their tablet to their PC via an USB cable instead?
friend should nuke this crapware and use syncthing for such activities. if they happen to run jellyfin, they can use it to serve books as well, and by utilising the OPDS plugin it would allow compatible readers (e.g. Librera) to directly download books/comics to the device in a shop-like interface.
He ruined it for everyone. If he fucking cared about his platform like ridding it from child pedos, drug trafficking groups and vice versa. He could've still retained what was already going. But because that he didn't, this is the course we're on.
I'm pretty sure most of these chat apps that have seen a lot of conservative and overseas enthusiasm are meant to either be a honeypot or a safe space for pedos. I imagine most chat apps, if they actually were on a mission to remove pedos and any illegal activity, would lose a ton of their userbase.