Despite the demonstration this week to protest against the blockade of Telegram, the Russian government announces new measures to intensify the blockade of the popular application instant messaging. Since the blocking of 50 Internet anonymizers and VPN services that provided access to the application is announced. Although it is not known which services have been blocked.
However This has been announced by the Roskomnadzor, which is the Russian federal executive body in charge of censorship. It is one more measure to increase pressure and cause no one in the country to have access to Telegram.
Since thanks to a series of tricks and the use of options such as VPN, a lot of people in Russia have continued to have access to the application. Despite the fact that the government has so far blocked some 20 million IP addresses. Remarkably increasing censorship on the Internet in the country.
But this new measure is a big setback for many users. Since having blocked these VPN services, for many, access to Telegram has become impossible. In this way, with this measure, a large part of Russian companies that work or offer services in the cloud have been affected.
Telegram has 15 million users in RussiaThe country being its main market, as well as being the most downloaded messaging application in the country. So this blockage is a huge problem for the application in its main market.
It is not known whether new measures will be introduced to increase this blockage. and prevent users from being able to connect to it. Although it would be no surprise, seeing the way the Russian government is acting. So we will have to wait and see how the story unfolds.