This has nothing to do with privacy either. First of all Telegram is not a private messenger. Secondly, this is a about public forums and groups called Channels. This has nothing to do with backdoors eithe. They are simply asking them to do moderation on chats they already have access too.
Telegram has full access to this data and knowingly ignores child pornography and other criminal activity. If Facebook did such a thing for years you'd be screaming right now.
Everything that's encrypted is private and secure. There are messengers that encrypt your messages, profile, who you message, contacts, etc. Use those. If you're particularly paranoid, read the code and build from source.
Dumbass didn't encrypt the chats and didn't do moderation according to local laws. If Facebook did the same as his company did, Mark Zuckerberg would share his fate.
That's what they say. I only trust encryption and not people.
Well, for some unknown reason, drug dealers still choose telegram.
How do you know that not 99% of drug dealers use Signal and 1% Telegram? Could very well be so. You don't know because it's all encrypted. That is the whole point. That is also why nobody from Signal got arrested. No law violated if you can deny all allegations.
This is all perfectly legal. This is about public and unencrypted data not being monitored. This is good. I don't want child pornography in my Instagram feed and I also don't want it in a Telegram channel. What voting choices are you referring to in particular?
Which country is not authoritarian by that measure?
Wrong community mate.
There exist not EU citizenship because the EU is not a country. That aside, EU countries have stronger dmocracies, and especially stronger privacy protection laws than any other country in the world. What are you talking about? Are you in the correct community?
Why is this posted here? Telegram is not a private or secure messenger.
Telegram chats are not encrypted by default, only Secret chat is which is not synced to Desktop and only works on one-to-one chats, no groups.
Because almost all data is encrypted. They don't even know who is messaging whom. How can they be charged with crimes they didn't commit? They don't know what their users are using the messenger for, so they can just deny everything.
No you can't unless you have access to the phone itself. It's impossible. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.