A lawsuit against the telegram with the request of the Russian Federal security service (FSB), who had previously been asked by telegram to the General Director Pavel Durov to provide the Agency with the encryption keys in order to prevent terrorist acts in Russia, as envoy is believed to be widely used by terrorists.
Some Russian users reported that the telegram is no longer available to them after the Russian communications Watchdog Roskomnadzor announced on Monday that it had issued a notice to operators that access telegram has been limited.
Tweet: telegram is currently blocked
TWEET: it seems that the ban on the telegram is really going to move forward
“Roskomnadzor has taken the decision of the Tagansky district court to restrict access to Internet resources of telegram messenger the LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP the dissemination of information by the organizer in the Russian Federation. In this regard, information about these online resources were sent to the operators, on Monday, April 16, to limit access,” said Roskomnadzor.
The lock must be in within 24 hours. Roskomnadzor also intends to send requests in the AppStore and Google Play to uninstall apps.
The announcement comes days after a Moscow district court official of the Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, to immediately block the telegram to Russia, without waiting for the appeal to be considered. The court found that the telegram will remain blocked in the country yet does not provide encryption keys to the Russian authorities.
In turn, General Director of the messenger, Pavel Durov said telegram is the use of built-in methods of bypassing a lock that does not require user intervention.
He also said that regardless of the blocking, the telegram will still be able to send messages to all Russian users, informing them of the situation.
The court’s decision followed a lawsuit against the telegram that was proposed by the Russian Federal security service (FSB), who had previously asked Durov telegram to provide the Agency with the encryption keys in order to prevent terrorist acts in Russia since the messenger is widely used by terrorists.
The company was given 15 days before the beginning of April to match, but in the end he refused to give FSB encryption keys.
Twitterians in the Russian segment of the Internet rushed to comment on the ban.
TWEET: we can prohibit karaoke and not a telegram?
Tweet: I learned that the telegram was banned in Russia from telegram
TWEET: if there is something that should not be banned in Russia, this is the cable. In my humble opinion
TWEET: judging by the screams and moans, telegram is the only messenger on Earth… I’m from the country, did not Wake up
Sourse: sputniknews.com
