To the government exerting control over it's citizens is far more important than protecting it's citizens rights and well-being. Facebook knows that and just play the game and at the end of the day Zuckerberg can do whatever he want if he saves politicians faces.
Its not about "querdenker" putting there bullshit on and promoting there products.
It's about the far right and people are getting more aggressive every day and writing death threats and leaking addresses and a lot of nasty shit.
It's not about selling your homeopathic sugar pills. It's not about stupid people spreading fake news. It's about people calling other people to kill other people.
If you dont recognize this then your a
In order to institute fascism, Hitler needed a crumbling economy, not an encrypted messenger!!!
Will they also shut down email, I'm sure a lot of death threats are sent via that?
Even if a few crazy people are into such things, it doesn't mean they have a huge impact. You can use Telegram just fine without ever seeing anything of it.