They have freedom but their freedom is gradually taken away. One of HK resident nailed it when he said they are the only city in China that can do this so let’s do it before they can’t.
Non-sense propaganda? Telegram is closed-source and its source code cannot be independently verified. That's it. That's not propaganda but facts. I do agree Whatsapp should be gone in the same way as Messenger but Telegram is far from perfect. At the moment Signal is far superior option.