Amsterdam municipality #bans #Telegram on work phones over criminal use, espionage threat | NL Times
What consequences will it have for #freedomofspeech ?
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@paoloredaelli I guess they can decide whataver they want on work phones of their own employees, but it does seem silly.
> Telegram is a “safe haven for
> hackers, cybercriminals, and
> drug dealers,”
If the municipality has employees who are cybercriminals and drug dealers, then maybe they should stop hiring criminals.
I think banning something because "it can be used by criminals" is stupid, generally. Criminals breathe air, so air should be bammed? Criminals eat food, so food is bad too?
@eliasr
It seems that the municipality is making the very dangerous assumption that Telegram is used by criminals. The next step is banning Telegram altogether, a move already made by many dictatorships (see Government censorship of Telegram - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_censorship_of_Telegram?wprov=sfla1)