But with that small tweak to their front end they can "VERY CLEARLY SEE that the platform is being misused." So per your own argument, the government should force them to do so (and presumably anyone that's uncomfortable with that can "just not use Signal").
but I want to see it implemented before I believe any of it is real
As you should, they've let players down many many times before (myself included) making promises for things to come that never happen. A prime example is the player owned house rework that was promised in one of the original Rune Fests.
The tick rate improvements and client side prediction they demoed ... they said they may never happen; however, let's face it, they could happen they're just unwilling to commit to hiring the developers that would be needed to make that happen.
This was the final straw for me. Asking for feedback about MTX and then leveraging that to raise prices. Even if that's not what they did, their timing is beyond stupid.
For me, I couldn't get behind the battle royale thing.... It's just too much pressure. Don't get me wrong, I like intense gunfights, but for a win to be only when you're the last team standing of everyone on the server using only the random loot you found ... that's a lot of pressure.
On the graphics front, things have changed a lot over the years:
I actually think it looks pretty decent personally and it keeps getting better. It's not Hunt Showdown: 1896, but it's still pretty nice visually (just more of an animation than photorealism focus).
This seems like a weird thing to be concerned about. Any given time zone there are going to be millions if not billions of people.
Git also "leaks" your system username and hostname IIRC by default which might be your real name. A fake name and email would pretty much be sufficient to make any "leaked" time zone information irrelevant.
Granted... I wonder if stuff like this is how they caught those North Korean "employees."
FWIW, I'd also suggest just picking the wrong time zone (but a close one) over UTC or something like that. UTC seems like it's just "HEY LOOK AT ME! I'M TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING!" One on the other side of the world, if you sleep like most people, could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone.
It's better to be "Jimmy Robinson in Houston Texas" than "John Smith in UTC-0"
which is how Bellingcat got to the FSB officers responsible for the poisoning of Navalny via their mobile phone call logs and airline ticket data
Was that a bad thing? I've never heard the name Bellingcat before, but it sounds like this would've been partially responsible for the reporting about the Navalny poisoning?
They used the two highly popular bots called Ha and the E ** G, which allow to get everything known to the government and other social networks on every citizen of Russia for about $1 to $5.
Ultimately, that sounds like an issue the Russian government needs to fix. Telegram bots are also trivial to launch and duplicate so ... actually detecting and shutting that down without it being a massive expensive money pit is difficult.
It's easy to say "oh they're hosting it, they should just take it down."
Should the US federal government hold themselves liable for delivering illegal drugs via their own postal service? I mean there's serious nuance in what's reasonable liability for a carrier ... and personally holding the CEO criminally liable is a pretty extreme instance of that.
personally have seen the illegal content I talked about.
Did you seek it out? I and nobody I know personally, have ever encountered anything like what was described on that platform and I've been on it for years.
Was it the same "channel" or "group chat" that persisted for years?
What gives them the right or responsibility to moderate a group chat or channel more than say Signal or Threema? Just because their technical back end lets them?
I mean by that argument Signal could do client side scanning on everything (that's an enforcement at the platform level that fits their technical limitations). Is that where we're at? "If you can figure out how to violate privacy in the name of looking for illegal content, you should."
Nothing Telegram offers is equivalent to the algorithmic feeds that require moderation like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, everything you have to seek out.
Make no mistake, I'm not defending the content. The people who used the platform to share that content should be arrested. However, I'm not sure I agree with the moral dichotomy we've gotten ourselves into where e.g., the messenger is legally responsible for refusing service to people doing illegal activity.
Questionable interpretation. Privacy doesn't mean mathematically proven privacy. A changing booth in a store provides privacy but it's only private because the store owner agreed to not monitor it (and in many cases is required by law not to monitor it).
Effectively what you and the original commenter are saying (collectively) is that mathematically proven privacy is the only privacy that matters for the Internet. Operators that do not mathematically provide privacy should just do whatever government officials ask them to do.
We only have the French government's word to go off of right now. Maybe Telegram's refusals are totally unreasonable but maybe they're not.
A smarter route probably would've been to fight through the court system in France on a case by case level rather than ignore prosecutors (assuming the French narrative is the whole story). Still, I think this is all murkier than you'd like to think.
Imagine someone actually feeling bittersweet about moving on to something new for fun and/or for the benefit of their career.
Literally why does the Internet have to be filled with "they can't possibly just be good people making a decision that isn't inconsequential, FAKE" comments like this?
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That's just the nature of PC gaming; as time goes on games look prettier but run worse.