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The Achilles' heel of the internet is that it's controlled by the US.

More like the Achilles' heel of the US is that it's controlled by the Internet.

Still yes US holds main strings. This act is about grabbing it all, so my high certainty prediction is that US would loose all it had. (read my longer post)

> my longer post

For the convenient clicker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30298373

Not in China. A country that takes it's sovereignty very seriously. But one can argue they've turned it into their own intranet.

Rather the US than the PRC or Putin though.

But I'd prefer the EU, imo.

You're missing the point about this evil act. I'd also pick US as is now, but to summarize after this act US becomes greatest evil against all other and itself.

Don't hold your breath. We have plenty of political forces here that don't like encrypted communication. SPD in Germany would gladly see Telegram be completely banned.

They even brag about this in their own party-media: https://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/innenpolitik-spd-gegen-tele...

What a disgrace the party has become. It has nothing to do with former social democrats which we owe much to regarding liberties. Their behavior is nourishment for extremism more than any internet platform could ever be. Fear and self-fulfilling prophecies is what they will harvest.

They are like the people complaining about distrust in government while regularly extending surveillance of citizens.

Isn't this criticism of Telegram about hate speach rather than encryption? If you wanted to ban encryption, Telegram would be the least of your worries.

> SPD in Germany would gladly see Telegram be completely banned.

> They even brag about this in their own party-media: https://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/innenpolitik-spd-gegen-tele...

Nothing in this article supports that allegation.

And on the topic of encryption the new administration intents to strengthen it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29433262

I would prefer Iceland, let's make Iceland the Sheppard of the Internet-(Core) ;)

Yeah let’s move it to Russia and China, that will make it more free

The internet doesn't need to be controlled by a single country, and there are other countries in the world besides the US, Russia, and China.

it's interesting every time something about the US being the US comes up, someone brings up China or Russia.

It's a knee jerk reaction at this point, but, in all honesty, China and Russia have 3 times the internet users US has (China is also building internet infrastructures in many African countries), that can't be easily discarded.

And for many of them the "american internet" is less free, more invasive and more dangerous than their own.

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