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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by tomp on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:55AM (#7639337)
> And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms

Doesn't that also mean that the government would gladly accept a bribe from a foreign state actor in exchange for suppressing the freedom of the telegram team?!

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by StavrosK on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:46AM (#7639883)
If things there are anything like in Greece, the system is corrupt and dysfunctional enough to not care about newfangled problems (there's literally no enforcement of anything limiting online (maybe even offline) freedom here), but not corrupt enough to do egregious/outright illegal things because of bribes.
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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by BugBrother on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:18AM (#7639741)
Probably not from Russia, in Romania's case. But it is a point, maybe not worth betting on.
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