this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
157 points (97.0% liked)

Technology

59323 readers
4805 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
157
Russia Fines Telegram Over Failure To Remove Unspecified 'Banned' Content. (www.rferl.org)
submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago

But but but… the wankies told me Signal Superior was the one and only messaging app capable of circumventing censorship and Telegram is a Russian psyop app with no means of circumventing censorship, which is why most prominent anti-ruzzian channels are on it.