Roskomnadzor threatens to block the Zello application popular among truckers

The Zello application, which is popular with truckers, can be blocked in Russia. The Zello Twitter account is reported to receive an appropriate notice from the service in the field of communication, information technology and mass communications ( Roskomnadzor ).

The Republic of RKN says Zello Inc. violated the obligation established in the second part of Article 10.1 of the Law "On Information" . That is, I did not notify Roskomnadzor of the beginning of activity in Russia. For the correction of this, a term of three days is given, otherwise the agency intends to limit access to the domain used in the Russian Federation. Journalist Alexander Plyushchev connected the difficulties of the company with the protests of the truckers.

Zello service, which promises to block Roskomnadzor next week, is actively used by protesting truckers.

- plushev (@plushev) April 8, 2017

Zello emulates the work of a walkie -talkie on a smartphone, allows you to create channels for communication and not be distracted from the road to a set of messages.

The next wave of protests against the truckers against the system of raising money for travel along Plato federal highways began at the end of March. The mass of the most was the action in Dagestan . The drivers took to the Rosgvard ring , and the authorities called them "beasts" and "freaks".