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Maybe it only happens for Europeans?

Frankenstein is the monster?

Uhm, hello, it says blood MEAL, so of course it’s made to be eaten.

certain public features of telegram that do allow you to report illegal materials have been used to spread them.

I don’t understand, what do you mean? Does clicking “report” on a message not simply send a report to moderators only?

The source is this article.

There’s nothing in the article that says they refuse to disclose chat contents. In my own experience they often do so when receiving a proper request from governments, providing at least the last 24 hours of messages.

My comment regarding Roskomnadzor has nothing to do with encryption, but rather Telegram cooperates with them, and that’s why they stopped trying to block the platform. A little bit of reading comprehension would do you wonders.

if Telegram refuses to turn over the chat contents (which they do)

Source?

Law enforcement can’t just eavesdrop on the conversation without Telegram’s cooperation

Why do you think Roskomnadzor gave up their blockage plans in 2018? And then made their own official government channels? “It’s technically difficult for us” has never stopped Roskomnadzor before.

CSS wouldn’t be used to spy on your network traffic; if they wanted your internet data, they’d have much simpler methods to collect it than CSS (and they wouldn’t be able to decode most of that data anyways in normal cases).

or who I am accessing it from

What do you mean by that?

Suggesting that a VPN could mitigate stuff relating to CSS is like wearing a floating vest 24/7 when flying in a Boeing plane: you might feel a bit safer with it on, but it’d probably be smarter to have a parachute instead.

A VPN won’t really do anything against CSS/IMSI catchers.

All those services block IPVanish and Proton. They want my data not my money.

How do you come to that conclusion from their blocking of commercial VPNs? Sure, of course they want your telemetry as well, but it’s mainly due to the copyright owners/distribution agreements.

In many places its illegal to not accept cash.

Where? I can’t think of many places where that’d be true.

Buying pirated DVDs is one example I assume?

Molle should be hanging with Luffar-Lasse

Why would you ever want to rename the file though? The extra tags are useful, eg for when searching matching subtitles or remembering quality without needing to check ffprobe.

Yeah, but many European countries have moved to require registration of prepaid cards “to stop criminals” or something like that. So you can still usually buy them with cash and whatever, but you won’t be able to activate or use it until you confirm your identity.

It’s a public static IP, no one else is on it except for me :)

Do they actually do that in the majority of cases, or just a few to scare people? Germany is really weird on IP law…

admitting that they might need to if they were forced to. That is extremely reasonable.

It’s not though? The reasonable result would be to simply shut down in that jurisdiction.

That’s an inherent problem with shared connections.

The thing with sites telling you that your login is incorrect is also sometimes intentional, so people trying to brute-force logins won’t realize they’re getting blocked or just that their attempt was incorrect.

And yes, the only possibility is to try a different server that hasn’t been abused, or run your own.

You can comply with the law whilst not having anything to provide the law. Such as Mullvad does.

You mean they got a shock letter that says “pay us, or we’ll take you to court”? Just throw that junk mail away.