Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.
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.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/10/europe/telegram-ban-russia-web-block-latam-intl
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Solrac
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to Solrac • • •glitching
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •because it has the best (not one of the best, the best) UX of any of its brethren and normal people are super forgiving about them non-important things once they get used to the fluidity and glitz of weirdov's app.
I have first hand experience with forcing (apt term) normies to use XMPP and Matrix clients in a corpo setting and am witness to the abject horror they experience when they clash with the dogshit apps these lunatics claim are production ready.
eleitl
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •herseycokguzelolacak
in reply to Solrac • • •Lytia
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •Or it's because the platform is nearly unmoderated and has benefited greatly from the network effect.
adaira
in reply to Lytia • • •ArcaneSlime
in reply to Lytia • • •It's actually because that claim is flat out false. People sell drugs on Snapchat for starters, back in the day it started on IRC (afaik) if you knew the right spots, Silk Road is closed (and all those using the name since are scams) and I think WHM (last I knew) exit scammed, but someone took up the job (idk who, check Dread.)
There, fixed that for them lol.
Solrac
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •eldavi
in reply to Solrac • • •Solrac
in reply to eldavi • • •hexagonwin
in reply to Solrac • • •sakuraba
in reply to hexagonwin • • •yeah, if they get full access to your device no amount of end to end encryption will avoid that
no matter how secure the chat app protocol is, as long as one of the users in the chat is compromised they can access to those chats
xuv
in reply to hexagonwin • • •hexagonwin
in reply to xuv • • •ArcaneSlime
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •Bruh people sell drugs on Snapchat. That doesn't mean Snapchat's "security" (they have none) is "good."
Very stupid people sure, but they're there, and the ones doing the same on Telegram are just as dumb. If you want to find the real ones you'll need to learn about Tails, Dread, and XMR.
SitD
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •RmDebArc_5
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Seefra 1
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •lad
in reply to Seefra 1 • • •balsoft
in reply to Seefra 1 • • •eleitl
in reply to balsoft • • •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
in reply to eleitl • • •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.
eleitl
in reply to balsoft • • •I expect that most contries will be moving to a Great Firewall Internet model. In case of Cheburnet for a wholly autonomous mode of operation, in case of a hostile disconnect.
cone_zombie
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