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Before Orban and his cronies took over, Hungary was on an upwards trajectory in terms of rule of law, personal liberties. In fact Orban himself started politics with a pretty progressive programm. Guess he got bought out along the way though and like the cash a little bit too much.

It's a rotating system, so it wasn't a deliberate decision.

Maybe he did miss Trump and wants to really meet him at the next opportunity? 🤔

There is nothing quite like a war to drive technological innovation...

Nah, yay delegation of power.

It's the same reason why a modern democratic state is unlikely to crumble when a president gets assassinated: No single person holds all the power and succession is codified. Which is not the case in corruption ridden systems like Russia. There is going to be chaos should Putin not wake up tomorrow.

Yeah, I get it: Sow fear and distrust.

But this isn't Russia where you cut of the head of an organisation and it suddenly falters such as Wagner. Rheinmetall wouldn't stop or even slow down production. Got to keep that revenue going for the shareholders.

Videos? Yeah.

Documents? Can be quite a lot!

Grab someone's ID, print the profile picture on a sheet of paper. Strap it to your face:

Had an interesting conversation a couple days ago:

Because I am moving into a smaller apartment I am giving away some furniture. A guy from Lebanon comes over to collect a table and chairs. He tells me he recently sold most of his belongings as he planned to return to Lebanon. However due to the recent Israely attacks in south Lebanon he (understandebly) decided to stay in Germany.

Who would have thought that people don't want to live in an active war zone? /s

What you lack in memory, your legs suffer.

Where are you from? Over here in southern Germany it is quite common.

There are still some people around. But yes they become fewer and fewer.

My Great Grandmother die 3 Years ago shortly before her 96st birthday.

Russians are very advanced when it comes to the internet.

I do not doubt that for marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ comunity, who have to watch every step they do. But given the restrictions placed on everyday online services in Russia I'd assume the average citizen has harder time.

Doesn't mean anything. Especially for groups who just want to communicate.

A subset of society that's marginalized at best and killed at the worst doesn't care about who can read and influence their communication? That seems highly shortsighted to me.

There is not enough evidence to support the probability of telegram making steps to make finding gay people easier for Russian authorities.

That we know of. Given that the company behind Telegram has been involved in various sketchy situations I wouldn't bet my wellbeing on a service that might or might not share information with a corrupt government..

Telegramm and "safe"?

Sorry, but these people must have been living under a rock (which actually is quite likely as we are talking about Russia).

Telegram has control over the content and channels and has been working with governments in the past.