No, the worst part is people running to the comments section on a real, legitimate issue and airing their general conspiracy theories and misunderstandings about the world as if they’re factual. It dilutes the point when you fill the room with noise like this, so you’re really having the opposite effect than you think and playing directly into the goals of the people who fed you that horseshit.

It does not really matter if Telegram gets blocked for pedophiles, right wing "extremists" or whatever reason. Censorship is censorship.

I'd never heard the phrase child groomers until a couple months ago and now it's everywhere. Same with CRT a few months before that. People talk about "liberal media" but nothing holds a candle to the power of right wing media to manufacture constant outrages over and over again. They've elevated Two Minutes Hate to an art form.