On April 30, 2018, demonstrations were held in
Moscow against the Russian government blocking the popular Telegram messenger.
Telegram is positioned as the safest messenger
in the world through the use of end-to-end encryption, where only communicating
users can read messages, and using a self-developed messaging protocol, called
MTProto. After approving Yarovaya law, the Russian government began to request
decryption keys from various messengers under the pretext of fighting terrorism
and reading the messages of users suspected of terrorism. The management of the
messenger refused, explaining it with technical impossibility. In response to
this, in April 2018, the Telegram IP addresses began to be massively blocked,
however, the IP addresses of many other Internet services in Russia were also
blocked, which caused serious problems in the overall work of the providers
throughout the country. In total, the government has reportedly blocked over 19
million IP addresses.
Unable to endure anymore, the residents of
Moscow took to the streets to protest and tossed the planes in the air in an
act of solidarity with the encrypted messaging service. Express their
disagreement with total censorship and violation of private rights to privacy
decided about 10,000 people, including political activist Alexei Navalny and
participant of the notorious punk rock band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina. After
the demonstrations, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov expressed gratitude to the
participants of the action and said that he would continue to fight for the
preservation of user data.
At the moment, Telegram continues to function
smoothly in the territory of the Russian Federation, however, the government
continues to look for ways to block the application and asked Google and Apple
to remove the messenger from the Play Market and AppStore.
You can find more information here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/telegram-iran-russia.html
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