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Pavel Durov (CEO of Telegram) about the use of "the Gag order" in U.S against social media privacy
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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I think he's confused the US with the UK. Over here, companies (not individual employees) can be legally forced to introduce backdoors and legally prevented from ever mentioning it.
Apple recently got around this by 'accidentally leaking' the fact the UK gvmt were ordering them to break encryption.