Spanish judge requests internet operators to block Telegram countrywide

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17 points·jaimehrubiks··6 comments

Summary from multiple sources:

Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court has ordered a temporary block of Telegram in Spain in response to a lawsuit regarding unauthorized content uploading filed by Mediaset España, EGEDA, A3 Media, and Movistar Plus. The messaging service's suspension is to be enforced by telecommunications operators.

The decision comes after the judge's request for information from the company behind the app went unanswered.

Telegram, developed by Pavel Durov's company, is one of Spain's and the world's most popular messaging apps, with 39.6% of Spaniards using it, according to Statista, while WhatsApp, owned by Meta, leads with 95.5% popularity.

Telegram seems to be working at this time yet but there are starting to appear the first complains from users in the past minutes in Twitter and down detector https://downdetector.es/problemas/telegram/

Telegram is the app I use to talk to everyone I know. I guess from now on I'll be sending smoke signals.

check pinned messages in @drproxy while it's still up, it's ran by Digital Resistance

Thank you, but that doesn't really solve anything. I have many proxies/VPN available to use but 90% of my contacts are just regular users who won't be able to connect.

These are proxies that work inside telegram and can be enabled with a single click, you can even share the proxy links outside of the app and they will open on it and configure automatically, they're as easy to use as possible, share away

Nobody will do that anyway. Once the app stop working most people will stop using it.

It may sound pessimistic but that's how things are.

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