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Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps. (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms.

On Tuesday, the government said it was restricting access to Telegram for the “protection of Russian citizens,” accusing the app of refusing to block content authorities consider “criminal and terrorist.”

Russia’s telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement that it would continue to restrict the operation of the Telegram messenger “until violations of Russian law are eliminated.”

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didn't they do this years ago when the war started?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can configure a proxy in the client, though it's a game of cat and mouse. Cheburnet will only grow in its traffic filtering capabilies. It's a stupid move since it prevents western audiences from learning what's going on in a less censored environment. People who bother installing MAX will be a tiny minority.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.

In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it was before the war and heard they recently published a press release stating that not blocking them all these years was illegal, because they technically never stopped blocking. If that sounds stupid, I think that's about right