WTF? A Russian messaging app?

[UpInArms]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-social-media-summit-mortifies-white-house-enrages-far-right-allies

Loomer and other pro-Trump personalities have raged about the summit on Telegram, a Russian messaging app she and other banned personalities have resorted to using after being kicked off Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

“It’s just absolutely disgusting how poorly this summit was planned and how blatant the act was to keep banned individuals out,” Loomer wrote in a Telegram post. “I cannot believe that every single banned person was out of the summit.”

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[Igel]

1. Why not?

There's a Chinese one, too. And a fairly common one that's European in origin (I think--it's more popular there than here).

Vkontakte is basically Russian Facebook.

If they're deplatformed, it doesn't seem quite reasonable to say, "How dare they find an alternative!?" Otherwise we're in the position of saying, "Uppity deplorables, not staying properly punished and silenced. What do they think they are, people? They should know their place." (Which also seems entirely unreasonable.)

[UpInArms]

2. Just wondering why Russia?

It just keeps coming up ...

Isn’t MySpace still operational?

[lanlady]

3. Telegram's been around for several years

And it's a safe bet that the FSB has a back door into Telegram messages. Anyone who uses a Russian messaging or social media app is a hopeless fool.