[read_if_gay_]

Yeah, it’s true that not having E2EE makes Telegram a bad choice for the purposes of the protesters. Convenience and inertia wins out though. And when you have groups of hundreds of thousands of people, there aren’t too many choices in the first place.

[maqp]

The expectation of privacy loses it's meaning when the group size grows. It's more likely what you said remains private when you say it in a group of five people than if you say it in a group of 50, 500, 5000, or 500,000 people. IMO supergroups and channels don't need E2EE, normal groups in Telegram definitely do. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. E2EE where expectation of privacy can be assumed from group size isn't a problem.

Also, Signal has no upper group size limit but E2EE would make group with 100,000s a bit sluggish. But that's a problem that reduces with Moore's law.