Telegram has quietly updated FAQs and has removed Chat Privacy content from it. This sneaky move has raised questions if the flag-bearer of ‘Free Speech’ has bowed down to the pressures of ‘democratic France’. However, TON prices remain unfazed due to this new development and rather jumps.
Twitter user @tier10k first noticed Telegram’s sneaky move. He posted on X, “Telegram quietly updated its FAQ and deleted the following content:
‘All Telegram chats and group chats are private conversations between participants. We do not process any requests related to these chats.’”
Debates about freedom of speech have once again fired up after this revelation came to light. Telegram, which was once hailed as the ‘app messenger serving the cause of Freedom of Speech’, has finally succumbed after Pavel Durov was arrested in France and proved that privacy is smoke and mirrors.
Recently, in what was Durov’s first Telegram appearance since his release, he wrote, “”Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,”
He also refuted accusations from France that Paris had not received responses from Telegram to its requests, saying that he had personally helped French authorities “establish a hotline with Telegram to tackle the threat of terrorism in France”.
In the post, Durov said that Telegram’s growing user numbers(950 million)– “caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform”. He added that this issue was being worked out internally and more details will be shared in the future.
He said that when Telegram could not agree on the “right balance between privacy and security” with local regulators then “we are ready to leave that country”.
Note that there has been no official communication from Telegram about this ‘Chat Privacy’ deletion.
As for what that could mean for Telegram’s crypto performance, TON is trading at $4.87 after a jump of 5.31%, rather hinting that it is still too early to trace the change in crypto community’s confidence in Telegram as the platform is mostly used by and within the crypto industry.
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