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The National Court orders to block Telegram in Spain (www.gearrice.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And it is pointless too as there are countless other messaging apps that can be used and countless others ways that can be created to circumvent. Law makers clearly do not get tech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The other messaging apps offering better privacy on top of that, making it harder to control.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean Telegram has been blocked in Russia before and it didn't stop their operations for too long. At best now some engineer at telegram has one more ticket and things will be back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

and it didn’t stop their operations for too long

You had to change proxies regularly, so it did. With some ISPs, at least.

I think it wasn't for really blocking it, just to test whether they can block it if they need it, during some big events.