
Russian Court Bans Telegram App After 18-Minute Hearing - dbasedweeb
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/europe/russia-telegram-encryption.html
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walrus01
I wonder how they intend to implement this. Russia for the most part doesn't
have anything like the great firewall. Probably by court order from their
version of the FCC forcing the largest ISPs with international connectivity to
put in static null routes for certain V4 and v6 IP blocks that contain the
telegram registration servers.

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slezyr
They've already blocked 118998 resources. They simply publish list of
resources which needs to blocked by ISPs.

[https://antizapret.info/stat.php](https://antizapret.info/stat.php)

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coolspot
It is interesting how other messaging services including also end-to-end
encrypted WhatsApp manages to be still not banned in the Russia.

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adamnemecek
It’s because WhatsApp doesn’t have anti Putin interests unlike Durov.

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loceng
That reason doesn't satisfy, it's not taking into account the connection to
encryption. We can't know if this is simply an attempt to shutdown Telegram
from use in the country, or whether they would have found the next most
believable excuse to block them if Telegram gave into the encryption issue.

