Subj : Re: He *did* mention that he would be on a vacation around this time.
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Sun Jan 24 2021 13:27:24

On 24 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA> But that is not Telegram's fault.  The above event took place  
 AA> before the sudden interest in alternative social/chat networks.
 AA> 
 AA> In the meantime, you may as well blame the telephone company for  
 AA> allowing criminals to talk on their phones.
 AA> 

There has actually been interest in alternative social networks/chat programs
for a while.  The Capitol Incident just brought it into the forefront of
people'sattention.

While you are correct, any thing done over Telegram isn't Telegrams fault,
other than being the communication platform used. If you look back some
years, wasn't there similar blame thrown towards Twitter or one of them for
ISIS recruitment and messages on their (more public) service?

The difference here being that Telegram claims to be totally encrypted and
not on central servers anywhere, so they can't access content of messages.

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