First published on the NIDO Russia Telegram channel.
Telegram Owner Pavel Durov has struck a deal with the Russia authorities which is beneficial to us all. This is important especially now that Whatapp has announced that they will be introducing restricting to message forwarding.
Durov struck a compromise with the FSB. The State Duma does not expect Telegram to be blocked after other social networks.
Oleg Matveichev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications said that as long as the messenger is politically neutral, they will not touch it, and there is no need to become biased by Telegram.
According to Matveychev, there is no manipulation and censorship in Telegram, which is what Facebook and Instagram do, it is “just a platform with various bloggers, so for now you can cooperate with it.”
Source: https://pdmnews.ru/
