Telegram Loses Free Expression Battle to Russian Authorities

Expand A man poses with a smartphone in front of a screen showing the Telegram logos in this picture illustration taken in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina November 18, 2015. © 2015 Reuters This morning, Moscow’s Tagansky District Court issued a ruling to block access to Telegram, a popular messaging service with close to ten million users in Russia, and close to 200,000 worldwide, for failure to hand encryption keys over to Russia’s security services. The ruling enforced July 2016 counterterrorism legislation, often referred to as the “Yarovaya law,” which requires internet companies operating…

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