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Where did all the brouhaha with Russia banning Telegram end? From what I understand it seems to be operational and rather popular there. Did the state give up

by abcd_f 5y ago

Where did all the brouhaha with Russia banning Telegram end? From what I understand it seems to be operational and rather popular there. Did the state give up or did Telegram end up “cooperating” with them?

meibo 5y ago
Blocking Telegram turned out to be technically unfeasible since they fought it by routing data through western cloud providers, which the Russian state was unable to block sensibly(you may remember stories from back then). In the end they "stopped trying" and actually embraced using Telegram as a propaganda tool nowadays.
pentagone 5y ago
They played cat and mouse for a while. https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9653-russia_vs_telegram_technical_notes_on_the_battle https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9653-russia_vs_telegram_technica...
vbezhenar 5y ago
Telegram started to collaborate with Russia and they let it live.
- nszceta 5y ago
  Untrue
- threatofrain 5y ago
  Where did you obtain confidence for this story?
  - vbezhenar 5y ago
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram-ban-idUSKBN23P2FT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram-ban-idUSK... Roskomnadzor said it had acted because the app’s Russian founder, Pavel Durov, was prepared to cooperate in combating terrorism and extremism on the platform.
  - ymolodtsov 5y ago
    Not an exact confirmation but there was a story about the VP of Telegram meeting with the Russian Prime Minister, which is quite weird considering Durov's notorious anti-political stance.