Russia Fines Telegram Over Failure To Remove Unspecified 'Banned' Content
www.rferl.org
A Moscow court has ordered the Telegram messaging app to pay a 4 million-ruble ($44,130) fine for failure to delete "banned information."
  • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    So signal and YouTube gets banned, but telegram is allowed to operate?

    Sus

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      They tried to block Telegram before and Telegram staged a counter offensive with proxies that kept them online in Russia and made the Kremlin look like fools as they broke the Internet in some places trying to block Telegram.

      AFAIK Telegram has much higher market share in Russia. Keep in mind it’s easier for an authoritarian to “flex” and block smaller fish.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Well that contextualizes a lot.

    Several Ukrainian tg channels dedicated to the war suddenly had an issue two days ago where every post was coming up as “you must be older than 18 to view this post” for android users. I wonder if they fucked something up trying to wiggle around this.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    without saying what information Telegram failed to delete

    Well geez, let me guess what information they would like to see deleted from telegram… Would it be information about how Russia is getting it’s ass handed in Ukraine? Would it be information about how Ukraine has successfully invaded Russia?would it be…