Encrypted chat providers are in a strange situation, where they’re worried about two kinds of regulation: from democratic countries worried that authoritarian extremists are coordinating on their platforms, and from authoritarian countries worried that pro-democracy activists are doing the same thing. It’s very hard to design a technology that protects dissidents who want to bring down the government of Belarus and not have it do an equally good job of protecting dissidents who want to bring down the government of the United States. It’s a bit like asking the physicists at Los Alamos to please tweak physics so nuclear weapons don’t work on US soil. Telegram does take down some public calls for violence, but, by design, can’t affect the private ones.

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