L’estrema destra tedesca è nel panico per Telegram

Researchers at Germany’s Center for Monitoring, Analysis, and Strategy (CeMAS) track around 3,000 channels and 2,000 groups linked to the German far right and conspiracy movements. Users are known to post racist and antisemitic hate speech, and some groups contain Nazi symbols, Holocaust denial, and calls to violence, openly flouting Germany’s strict criminal code. But a mass exodus from the platform, where groups have spent the past five years building a global infrastructure for radicalization and offline demonstrations, would be tantamount to starting from scratch online.

“If you’re a terrorist or you’re an extremist, you’re going to follow the path of least resistance, and in this particular case, that probably means Telegram,” Adam Hadley, the founder and executive director of the United Nations–backed organization Tech Against Terrorism, tells WIRED.

Pavel Durov’s arrest is a shot across the bow for Telegram, which now suddenly finds itself in the sights of European law enforcement and regulators. Neo-Nazis’ favorite app is staring down an existential threat, and they’re not quite sure what to do about it.

Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/germanys-far-right-is-in-a-panic-over-telegram/](https://www.wired.com/story/germanys-far-right-is-in-a-panic-over-telegram/)

Useful idiots supporting this government overreach and the ones accepting the authoritarianism coming from the incumbent governments/regimes. You’re being scared into accepting our freedoms being removed from us, and are celebrating it.

Uh oh far right again

Amazing. Never thought reddit would turn anti-encryption on a dime, advocating untethered access to all private communication by the government.

This is a continent that gave birth to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. And we are not at the end of history. What would Hitler have done with unlimited access to all communication by the Jewish population?

fuck em up