Petition for the abolition of the lock Telegram in Russia


    Good day to all! This morning, the Russian authorities began to block Telegram. Judge of the Tagansky court Yulia Smolina took only 20 minutes to satisfy the request of Roskomnadzor to block the messenger.

    Telegram is blocked under Art. 15.4 of the Law “On Information and Information Technologies”, which restricts access to the resources of information dissemination organizers if they do not fulfill the law - for example, they do not share with law enforcement officers the information necessary to decode users' messages.


    We consider the limitation of the functioning of the Telegram to be a political absurdity. The service is blocked due to the fact that the management of the Telegram does not fulfill the conditions that are impossible to fulfill in principle. And the court’s decision causes more damage to the business existing in the Telegram ecosystem than to the terrorists. By the way, over 15 million Russians use the messenger!

    Therefore, we recorded a video message for Change.org. The above analogies of the principles of cryptography will surely seem infantile for geeks, but we tried to depict the absurdity and inconsistency of the current situation for ordinary Internet users as clearly as possible. In general, if you also do not agree with the prevailing circumstances, then sign the petition demanding the lifting of the Telegram lock in Russia .

    Thank you all very much for your attention!

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