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Internet censorship circumvention is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship. There are many different techniques to bypass such censorship, each with unique challenges regarding ease of use, speed, and security risks.
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
Telegram also has social networking features, allowing users to post stories, create large public groups with up to 200,000 members, or share one-way updates to unlimited audiences in so-called channels. [11] Telegram was founded in 2013 by Nikolai and Pavel Durov.
Russia faced such a problem when they attempted to block Telegram (a messaging app using domain fronting), by blocking all Google and Amazon servers. This blocked many unrelated web services (such as banking websites and mobile apps) that used content from the Google and Amazon clouds. [21] [22] It did not succeed in blocking Telegram. [23]
A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country (except Autonomous area).
Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin said on Monday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick for health secretary and a vaccine skeptic, told him he supports polio vaccination.
Residents of Russia launched paper airplanes (the symbol of Telegram) from the roofs of various buildings. The protest was planned on Telegram on the morning of April 22. Pavel Durov, one of the founders of Telegram, supported the action, but asked that the participants gather up the paper airplanes within an hour after the launch. [32]
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