Look up Grice's Maxims sometime. Conversations have context. The context here is a comment section for an article about a nation state requesting chats from Telegram. The only relevant kind of encryption that would be able to prevent this is end-to-end encryption; in such a context, 'Telegram is unencrypted' is easily and near-universally understood to refer to E2E encryption, even if absent such context the meaning would be less clear.A better rain analogy would be someone saying 'I'd like to go for a smoke, is it raining', and you reply 'yes' because there is somewhere in the world where it is raining (just not there). You would be technically correct, but in the context of the question, the person was clearly interested in whether it was raining _there_.
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