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

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Post by codedokode »

anigbrowl wrote: post #65

Telegram is currently the target of legal/regulatory investigations by Russia (alleged extremism), France (likewise), and India (alleged facilitation of national exam leaking/cheating). I'm guessing the latter since it's the most recent and arguably has the most fiscal heft. Also very surprised to see Telegram was reliant on GoDaddy, notorious for its lack of transparency.

In Russia, "extremism" is being against Putin or the war. For example, posting photo of Alexey Navalny is "displaying extremism symbol". Also, there are people charged with extremism for posting a link to instagram/facebook domains (Meta is an extremist organization).

Also "facilitation of exam cheating" is the most stupid accusation. Why they cannot keep exam question in secret? Also why they do not shutdown scammer call centers which scam Westerners? So they want Telegram to be blocked but scammer call center to continue operating?

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

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Post by drdexebtjl »

FabCH wrote: post #107
drdexebtjl wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been happy with Gandi.net for years now. They’re based in France.

FYI - Gandi was great, but they got bought by private equity a few years back and the price skyrocketed and service went downhill super fast after the buyout.

Oh. I haven’t had to renew in a few years. Any EU-based alternative you suggest for when my next renewal comes up?

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

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Post by drdexebtjl »

inigyou wrote: post #145
cute_boi wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it better than cloudflare?

Never use the same company for your hosting or CDN and your domain, and avoid cloudflare in general. That's because if they don't like your website being on your CDN, and they suspend your account, you'll lose your domain. If your domain is at Porkbun you can change it to point to a different IP address. And avoid Cloudflare because they're centralising the internet.

Has this actually happened to anyone on Cloudflare Domains?

If they don’t give you access, you can escalate to the ICANN.

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

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Post by duskwuff »

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.

> If telegram disappeared then others would immediately take its place.

I'm not certain that's the case. Telegram has survived in large part because Durov is incredibly wealthy and can afford to shovel money into running the service more or less indefinitely. There's no obvious heir apparent.

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

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Post by vlian2088 »

codedokode wrote: post #191
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

Telegram is currently the target of legal/regulatory investigations by Russia (alleged extremism), France (likewise), and India (alleged facilitation of national exam leaking/cheating). I'm guessing the latter since it's the most recent and arguably has the most fiscal heft. Also very surprised to see Telegram was reliant on GoDaddy, notorious for its lack of transparency.

In Russia, "extremism" is being against Putin or the war. For example, posting photo of Alexey Navalny is "displaying extremism symbol". Also, there are people charged with extremism for posting a link to instagram/facebook domains (Meta is an extremist organization). Also "facilitation of exam cheating" is the most stupid accusation. Why they cannot keep exam question in secret? Also why they do not shutdown scammer…

>In Russia, "extremism" is being against Putin or the war.

In Russia, "extremism" is whatever the state decides it to be. "Give me the man, and I will find the crime" has always been its modus operandi. the last people who might have got fair trial were nobles under the Tzar.

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

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Post by hekkle »

codedokode wrote: post #191
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

Telegram is currently the target of legal/regulatory investigations by Russia (alleged extremism), France (likewise), and India (alleged facilitation of national exam leaking/cheating). I'm guessing the latter since it's the most recent and arguably has the most fiscal heft. Also very surprised to see Telegram was reliant on GoDaddy, notorious for its lack of transparency.

In Russia, "extremism" is being against Putin or the war. For example, posting photo of Alexey Navalny is "displaying extremism symbol". Also, there are people charged with extremism for posting a link to instagram/facebook domains (Meta is an extremist organization). Also "facilitation of exam cheating" is the most stupid accusation. Why they cannot keep exam question in secret? Also why they do not shutdown scammer…

> So they want Telegram to be blocked but scammer call center to continue operating?

Obviously yes, follow the money. Call centers use BSNL which is a state-owned telco, the government gets a cut of every call made. Telegram doesn't give the government any incentive to keep it around.

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

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Post by trollbridge »

ventegus wrote: post #169
walrus01 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.is might be a choice, since archive.is continues to be available despite many legal threats You don't have to be an Icelandic national to register a .is

kiwifarms and sci-hub have been kicked off .is

Based on that heuristic, .st is a very good domain, as is .gl (which hosts Anna’s-archive’s registration).

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

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Post by ikt »

vlian2088 wrote: post #188
gruez wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when did registars care about the political positions of its clients? They could have registered on cloudflare or namecheap and I doubt they'd bat an eye. Telegram is mainstream enough that nobody is going to cancel them, unlike kiwi farms or 4chan.

[flagged]

> namecheap actually went full retard and indiscriminately booted all Russian customers in the first days of the invasion

I actually rep namecheap more now

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

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Post by stickfigure »

trollbridge wrote: post #198
ventegus wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

kiwifarms and sci-hub have been kicked off .is

Based on that heuristic, .st is a very good domain, as is .gl (which hosts Anna’s-archive’s registration).

.st went down for most of a day:

https://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-...

Little TLDs may be poorly run. Would not trust again.

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