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Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

fsuts wrote: post #139
zuzululu wrote: post #116

i really hope this is it from telegram. its downright causing havoc in countries without the jurisdictional power like korea and japan which have seen insane rise in drug related crime especially in japan they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators running human cell crime ops

If telegram disappeared then others would immediately take its place. Telegram also isnt device to device fully encrypted unless you use a more limited private chat and, as Telegram uses googles messaging service, so likely compromised to NSA anyway.

That's why they keep getting in trouble. They're not E2EE, but keep refusing court requests just because "we don't wanna"

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by echoangle »

dragonwriter wrote: post #140
walrus01 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. This makes a huge presumption of rock solid stability of political/economic system, that America is not going the direction of a banana republic, in terms of graft, corruption and patronage, which it certainly seems to be these days.

“Banana republic” is specifically a term referring to countries that are puppets of the United States on behalf of commercial interests (the trope-naming example being Gautemala on behalf of United Fruit Company); in the absence of an imperial power pulling US strings on behalf of that powers’ commercial interests which dominated the US economy, it would be hard for the US to be reasonably described as going the dire…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

Banana republic isn’t specific to US control and it’s actually not that unreasonable to call Russia a banana republic

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

ivanmontillam wrote: post #18
ceeam wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

It has existed for a while, it's called HNS[0]. -- [0]: https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd

Reality: that's just one of many get-rich-quick schemes that have run their course. Nothing makes it more legit than Namecoin or ENS.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

kajman wrote: post #83
LeoPanthera wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with ICANN. Status flags are set by the registry.

The Don is too busy selling exclusive TLDs to private companies that won't use them to care what the enforcers are up to.

There are no global enforcers of ccTLD registry behavior. It is completely up to that country. In this case Montenegro.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by el_io »

zuzululu wrote: post #116

i really hope this is it from telegram. its downright causing havoc in countries without the jurisdictional power like korea and japan which have seen insane rise in drug related crime especially in japan they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators running human cell crime ops

A domain ban won't be 'it' for telegram.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by gnabgib »

dragonwriter wrote: post #140
walrus01 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> American business based in America and doing business that benefits American citizens, rather than some random banana republic. This makes a huge presumption of rock solid stability of political/economic system, that America is not going the direction of a banana republic, in terms of graft, corruption and patronage, which it certainly seems to be these days.

“Banana republic” is specifically a term referring to countries that are puppets of the United States on behalf of commercial interests (the trope-naming example being Gautemala on behalf of United Fruit Company); in the absence of an imperial power pulling US strings on behalf of that powers’ commercial interests which dominated the US economy, it would be hard for the US to be reasonably described as going the dire…

No.. that's not specifically it at all.

> dependent on exporting a single product or commodity, often controlled by foreign-owned entities [0]

Such countries/regions long existed before the US, although the term was coined by a US writer (William Sydney Porter), and the Banana industry (specifically) has a lot to answer for (in the US specifically). A region making money from.. foreign-owned chips, oil, IT-consultants or Sardines has the same status. The term has a terrible history (surprising the Gap hasn't rebranded).

[0]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/banana-republic

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