Signal have been blocked in several countries including Russia and Telegram has more users there and it isn’t blocked.

Encryption on Telegram only works in 1 on 1 chats and is turned off by default so no one use it.

Tosdr

I will add that this are permissions requested by the app and this doesn’t mean that system granted access to them.

Reddit exlcluded porn from showing up in all

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No, EU lunched 5 months investigation to decide whether iMessage is big enough.