Why not? Lawful aspect aside, Apple states the conditions in their ToS upon which the app will be accepted and will stay available in their ecosystem. It may s

Why not? Lawful aspect aside, Apple states the conditions in their ToS upon which the app will be accepted and will stay available in their ecosystem. It may seem unfair and counterintuitive, but I suspect that there is non-zero portion of Apple users that happily subscribe to this model. What we're discussing here has strong political flavor, but this isn't the only case of Apple censoring Telegram's content. For example, all even remotely pornographic channels have been banned in native Telegram apps on iOS for years. Somehow Durov is silent about this (probably because you can't score some cheap publicity over defense of pornography). His double standards aside: parent buying his child an iPhone is probably much happier due to this policy than not.