![]() According to the press release, Telegram has agreed to cooperate with the German government and delete channels with potentially illegal content in the future. This included the channel of Attila Hildmann, a self-described nationalist who shared antisemitic conspiracy theories via his channel. On February 11, 2022, the German government announced that 64 Telegram channels, which reportedly potentially violate German laws against hate speech, had been deleted by their request. Some channels (for example Russians News channels) are blocked in the Czech Republic. In July 2021, the Cuban government blocked access to several social media platforms, including Telegram, to curb the spread of information during the anti-government protests. According to state-owned People's Daily, Chinese human rights lawyers used Telegram to criticize the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party. In July 2015, it was reported that China blocked access to Telegram Messenger. A federal court lifted the suspension three days later, but upheld the daily fine. The decision was made after a series of violent school attacks, with at least one incident being linked to exchanges on an anti-Semitic group. The company only partially fulfilled a court request for personal data on two anti-Semitic Telegram groups, which authorities considered an intentional lack of cooperation. On 26 April 2023, Telegram was temporarily suspended throughout Brazil, and the company was fined R$1 million (2023) ( US$ 185,528.76) daily for not complying with an investigation into neo-Nazi activities on the platform. Following the Superior Electoral Court's decision, Telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov claimed that the court was sending emails to an "old general-purpose email address" that Telegram hadn't been checking, and sought a reinvestigation of the decision. On March 18, the Superior Electoral Court ordered the suspension of all access to the service, alleging that the platform had repeatedly ignored the court's decisions. This decision includes one of the channels of the far-right journalist Allan dos Santos, who had already had his website ( Terça Livre) and YouTube channel deleted by a Supreme Federal Court decision. In February 2022, the Superior Electoral Court announces that 3 telegram channels, which are allegedly involved in fake news dissemination, had been regionally blocked by their request, under penalty of the Telegram being suspended for 48 hours. In October 2020, Apple asked Telegram to remove 3 channels that leaked the identities of the people involved in the Belarusian protests. ![]() On the evening of 11 August, while the Internet shutdown continued, 45 percent of people using Telegram protest chats in Belarus were online, despite the government's efforts to block online access. 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. Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. ![]() ![]() In June 2016, it was found that some ISPs in Bahrain had started to block Telegram. The restriction was lifted on 10 November 2020. Many other unrelated services were also blocked due to a lack of coordination. Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zoom and Skype were completely blocked. From 27 September 2020, following the start of the war in Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies imposed temporary restrictions on the use of social media in the country. ![]()
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