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Telegram restricts access to Hamas channels on Google, Apple stores (www.aljazeera.com)

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Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

Hamas’s official account, the account of its armed wing the Qassam Brigades, and the news account Gaza Now have not been accessible on versions of Telegram downloaded from Google Play or Apple’s App Store since last week.

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[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago

*sigh* Telegram isn't an "encrypted messaging app" unless you explicitly turn on "secret chats" that only work for one-on-one conversations and only on mobile. everything else can be read by the server.

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It is encryped unlike SMS for example, it's just not E2E encrypted

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

Well which messenger uses completely unencrypted communication?

Encrypted messaging kinda means E2E these days.

[-] Bjornir@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

At this point any web service is encrypted because it uses https then. Technivamly true but as everyone is doing it it doesn't mean anything anymore, so the meaning has changed to mean E2E encrypted.

[-] almightyGreek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Https does not make the chats encrypted

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Did they restrict it or is this more app stores restricting it for their app store users? Or have those app stores put so much. Pressure on telegram that the CEO finally caved and did this in the select countries those app stores operate in to comply with legal requirements or app store TOS requirements?

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

All this will achieve is make them move onto an actually good platform.

[-] WallEx@feddit.de -3 points 1 year ago

So what about the misinformation coming from Israel? This wouldn't be pure virtue signaling, would it?

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