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Telegram is primarily Russian so it's unlikely they would heed American regulators anyway.
by alibaba_x 7y ago
Telegram is primarily Russian so it's unlikely they would heed American regulators anyway.
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoTelegram is legally British.
- vmednis 7y agoHow is it Russian in any way? The app has been banned in Russia for more than a year now and the creator/CEO Pavel Durov is in exile from Russia.
- ryanlol 7y ago>CEO Pavel Durov is in exile from Russia. Pavel Durov is a Kremlin ally who pretends to be in exile from Russia. The app being sort-of blocked in Russia is just a part of the elaborate PR campaign to legitimize this VK spin-off. https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-about-its-connections-to-the-kremlin?zd=1&zi=phbuqqnk https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-... Telegram has shipped blatant backdoors in the past (This one is particularly egregious as there's no way to explain away this MITM feature as a bug) http://habrahabr.ru/post/206900/ http://habrahabr.ru/post/206900/
- adventured 7y ago> Telegram is primarily Russian Telegram isn't Russian at all at this point. "Although Telegram was founded by a Russian, Pavel Durov (more on him later), the messaging app rejects any affiliation with Russia." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/telegram-iran-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/telegram-ira...
- realusername 7y agoSeeing how hard Russia tries to ban it and that the founder had to leave the country for his safety, they are probably not sharing anything to Russia.