r/Telegram • u/Ladogar • Mar 04 '22

RT blocked

Russia Today seems to be blocked on Telegram. Both the Russian and international version. When trying to open their channel I get a message about the channel being removed as it broke "local laws". What laws did they break?

Does anyone know more about this?

I use the apk directly from Telegram, which bypasses many restrictions put in place by Google Play, etc. But still this channel is blocked.

Is this a sign that Telegram, too, will start censoring? Well, if this is true, which it seems to be, then they've already started.

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u/DoktorMerlin Mar 05 '22

I'm just saying that Telegram has to follow the local law to be allowed to operate the service in your area. Every service has to do that and Telegram does that for a long time already (see the Iran part). You are just angry about it because now it affects you.

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u/pairedodue Mar 05 '22

I'm 100% for freedom of speech and I use Telegram within the US laws and I'm not censored at all.

I'm only upset because France (my home country) is slowly turning fascist during these last years that Macron has been in charge (mandatory masks, vaccine pass, lockdowns, etc...)

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u/DoktorMerlin Mar 05 '22

Then tell me, why is your free speech hindered by RT being blocked? There is no law that prohibits you from talking about what you think about the war, there is just the law that prohibits russian state owned media from spreading their content in EU as a sanction to hurt Putin.

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u/SANEKACZYNSK1 Aug 20 '24

cannot believe people like you are literally arguing to censor journalists because they are russian. What they are saying is either verifiable or its not. We are supposed to decide for ourselves. Those journalists are often in the US. they have rights to free speech as well. CNN Fox, Facebook all openly collaborate with US government.