It is political. As I mentioned elsewhere in HN, Telegram is now being promoted in the US by the political-right there because they have lost trust in US BigTech social media platforms who, they believe, are "unjustly" censoring them on their platform. That is why the right-leaning media are now heavily promoting Telegram ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w ) and bashing other platforms ( https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher... ).
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You mean the BigTech social media platforms that use Signal's protocol for messaging ? Wow I wonder why the people who don't trust BigTech social media don't choose Signal that is actually insane.
If it is indeed political don't try to bring some kind of technological merit into this, it makes you look really dishonest.
You missed my point - I am agreeing with you that the arguments for or against both end up political, because politics is the reason both are being promoted. Technically both products are equivalent. And both products may also be sharing data with government(s). The right- in the US just hope that Telegram isn't sharing it with the US government. :)