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  • Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin broke the Non-Intervention Agreement and League of Nations embargo by providing material assistance to the Republican forces, becoming their only source of major weapons.

    From August 1936 onward, over one ship per day arrived at Spain’s Mediterranean ports with Russian aid: munitions, rifles, machine guns, hand grenades, artillery, trucks, Soviet agents, technicians, instructors, and propagandists.



  • I was referring to criminal activities with the shady stuff. Thankfully I haven’t come across cp on telegram, but I know for a fact that there’s drug deals and refund services there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also helped human trafficking cases.

    I don’t care about people buying drugs or scamming amazon, but at the same time I can’t support telegram helping all these malicious actors (whether its petty crime, cp, neonazis, etc) just because it can also be useful to leftists. Its scale and easy of use has something offputting, at least to me. We should also remember that it’s not some tool that was gifted to the left, it’s just an app made by a capitalist that acquired French citizenship.

    My thoughts are also incomplete because taken to the extreme you just have to ban all encryption, which is something I’m against, so I don’t really know what can really be done.


  • Law enforcement agencies should be arresting the people doing those things

    The problem here is that Durov is not helping them arrest these people. The whole issue started by him not complying with law enforcement requests.

    I understand, and agree, that CP is being used as a boogeyman to manufacture consent for anti-encryption and anti-privacy laws. However, I think it’s also unreasonable to allow a platform at the scope of telegram to get away with no issues because of what essentially boils down to “muh freedoms”.

    I wouldn’t support a total encryption ban, or some similar comically idiotic policy. But the whole thing with telegram also irks me. At least force the people hiding something shady to jump through actual hoops instead of just downloading a glorified server-client app.