I don't think you were making this argument, but I want to highlight that data is not morally neutral. Google Maps drives even less customers to stores that are smaller, and already have difficulty getting customers.
I’m pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.
I don't know what you're saying here because it makes no sense. No one who uses or shills for Telegram thinks lack of EE2E is a good thing, absolutely no one. They use it despite of lack of EE2E (ignorance or ideologically-flavored ignorance).
Being anonymous isn't incompatible with helping people
You're missing the point I've made completely.
Do people create mods for games or create open source software solely for recognition?
They can't gain recognition, uploading anonymously. But if someone purely wants the crack for the game to exist they could do it
Whether that would be worse than running Denuvo malware is up for debate lol
I don't buy this. It's easy to upload files anonymously.
I agree. If they're used solely as any other public forum. The problem is it supports the ecosystem of these platforms' faux private chats. Also if you have to create an account to view a public chat why not make it encrypted all the way? Matrix.org supports encrypted rooms.
It's also ridiculous that you have to give a phone number to use any "type of public forum", telegram.
Telegram is no more secure than any other for-profit platform it claims to be an alternative to.