> Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone. Obviously, they are not

> Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone. Obviously, they are not mad enough to break everyone's phones just to block Telegram. > I'm not the one for conspiracy theories though. Yeah, that was my thought. You did not provide any evidence to the claim that RKN only pretended they want to block Telegram, while there's a lot of evidence they actually wanted to block: they blocked millions of IP addresses and they threatened Apple to block App Store. > simply because they are using it themselfs If they really wanted to use it themselves, they would not block AWS and DO.