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Apple BANS Telegram?! WhatsApp AI + SpaceX IPO Explained (Ep. 26)
Summary
What happens when one company can make an app used by nearly a billion people disappear from your phone overnight?
Alex and Amir unpack the temporary disappearance of Telegram from Apple’s App Store and the bigger power struggle behind it: privacy, moderation, censorship resistance and the growing influence of platform gatekeepers.
They debate whether Apple is simply protecting the standards of its ecosystem, whether Telegram is doing enough to police illegal content, and what happens when governments realize they can pressure a platform like Apple instead of attacking Telegram…
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