Amid chaos and mass complaints, the Russian government may have to “ban Bitcoin” in order to successfully ban Telegram.
Telegram Shrugs Off Failed Censorship
The ‘solution’ to the seemingly impossible task of stopping Russian users accessing the encrypted messenger app underscores the crude reality of censoring global (and decentralized) networks.
That’s according to social media commentators both inside and outside Russia, who are responding to the country’s telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor’s failure to actually block Telegram with a mixture of embarrassment and satirical joking.
