[lxglv]

This should be a top comment in each Telegram privacy-related post or thread. Everyone is ok, that Google may read their e-mails and has full access to search details, Facebook might read their messages, 3-rd party ad-companies profile them through pixels, but at the same time start complaining, that FSB may read their Telegram messages (not proven btw).

[lightgreen]

Google and Facebook “read” that personal information by algorithms and by robots not by humans (except rare mistakes) to show you better advertisements.

FSB would try to read that information to try to damage the countries, to spy, to steal databases, to hurt people and so on.

If FSB could read private messages of US citizens it would be 1000 times worse than Google or Facebook reading them even accounting for leaks and misuse in G and FB.

G and FB is thousands engineers who love unicorns and rainbows and are extremely offended when the see a person wearing MAGA hat. FSB is men who regularly drink vodka, who are trained kill, who are not allowed to leave Russia, who are constantly told that Russia is surrounded by enemies.

Don’t compare G and FB to FSB.

(I doubt FSB can read Telegram.)

[gdy]

"FSB is men who regularly drink vodka"

And have a pet bear that plays balalayka.

[Dylan16807]

Be careful not to conflate "I don't want them reading my messages." with "I'm worried they will assassinate me in my home country."