As a Malaysian, please do. I am ashamed by my own government.

This... If I wanted an app in snap form, I would install it through snap instead. But installing an app through apt redirects to snap? No. It's ridiculous and unacceptable.

If not the latter, how the former? Messages is and should be private data as well.

This. Our fucking government can instruct Telegram to ban any channel or user they don't like.

Same opinion as yours, but I wish such a process can be faster.