Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms.
On Tuesday, the government said it was restricting access to Telegram for the “protection of Russian citizens,” accusing the app of refusing to block content authorities consider “criminal and terrorist.”
Russia’s telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement that it would continue to restrict the operation of the Telegram messenger “until violations of Russian law are eliminated.”
They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.
You can configure a proxy in the client, though it’s a game of cat and mouse. Cheburnet will only grow in its traffic filtering capabilies. It’s a stupid move since it prevents western audiences from learning what’s going on in a less censored environment. People who bother installing MAX will be a tiny minority.