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