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Russia lifts restrictions on Telegram messenger app after it expresses ‘readiness’ to stop some nasties

poohbear

Sigh. There is more to this. As I understand it from other reports, Telegram is detecting bad stuff on their network and blocking it. They're not giving access to any governments (officially ... reality may be different). The Ruskies walked back because the could not stop all the workarounds that bypassed the ban.

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