Here's a follow-up email with additional details/questions: Nowadays, Telegram is the main channel for us to coordinate and hold > pro-democracy rallies and protests. We like Telegram because it provides > private messaging. We don't know how, but the regime appears to be hacking > into, censoring, and filtering Telegram. To circumvent the censors, we use > a variety of proxies and VPNs. The regime even created a fake "approved, > fast, sanitized, and safe version" of Telegram that tricked some of our > supporters to moved to it. Beyond that, when our supporters click on the > URLs of our sites on Telegram, they're unable to access them. Is there > anything else we can do beyond telling our supporters not to use fake > versions of Telegram? Are there more secure social media apps than Telegram > that the regime won't be able to hack, filter, and censor? For example, > would Wickr be any better?
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:43 PM Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > A pro-democracy activist would like me to inform you of the following: > > Telegram is supposed to be encrypted. Yet the regime appears capable of >> attacking the privacy of our group members, disrupting the ability of our >> members to access news or communicate with each other. For example, one of >> our largest Telegram news groups recently experienced a dramatic decrease >> in membership. It was almost as though members had “left” the group en >> masse overnight. When we contacted some of the members outside Telegram, we >> were told that they could no longer find our news group when they searched >> for it. Such disruptions are undermining our ability to engage in effective >> collective action. > > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Yosem >
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