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Telegram has public channels that aren't encrypted.


Note that 1 to 1 chats are also not encrypted by default. It must be manually enabled - and once enabled you can only access the chat on a single device.


As people usually say here: It's not censorship unless a government does it.


Not really. Censorship is generally used in a general sense, in which a private party can be the one doing the censoring. It doesn't purely apply to the first amendment in the US constitution.

And with sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others with a large share of the market, it can certainly seem like censorship given how much being blocked or banned hurts your visibility.


You should read about the founder of DuckDuckGo


For the lazy: --- 2008: DuckDuckGo was founded[15] by Gabriel Weinberg,[16][17] an entrepreneur whose previous venture, The Names Database, was acquired by United Online in 2006 for $10 million.

This is most relevant snippet I could find about DDG's founder.


So I found this[0] but haven't read it yet. Was there something we should be looking for?

[0] - https://www.eyerys.com/articles/people/search-engine-and-pri...


April Fools'


Heh, got me good.


Why do I only see bad news about Uber lately?


garnter-hype-cycle.jpg

The more a product's marketing is able to get them over-hyped, the harder the fall when the zeitgeist starts focusing on their faults.


This is two years old...


Sorry, I missed that.


keep trying


Dupe


They review the adverts before being published.


There's not an English Pillow?


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