Might be a stupid question, but why is it always Telegram that gets talked about? Are other secure communications services like Signal, Keybase, etc already blocked?
> why is it always Telegram that gets talked about? Telegram is in the news because the Russian government picks on them so much. Russian government concentrates on Telegram because it's popular with the generation of Russians born after the collapse of USSR. Russians are the very best at memes, the memes get spread by Telegram. Telegram has this concept of 'Channels', which are basically an easier to use Twitter. A…
I forgot to add earlier that Telegram channels are 1 way. You subscribe to a channel, you don't communicate with the person publishing content to the channel... in the channel.
The updates you get in your Telegram channel are easier to deal with than just following someone on Twitter.