Roskomnadzor blocked BlackBerry, IMO and Line messengers

Roskomnadzor introduced BlackBerry, IMO and Line messengers to the register of prohibited sites, according to the RoskomSvoboda website. They refused to register as the organizers of the dissemination of information and cooperate with the Russian authorities.

Such sites are made in the register with a note of Restricting. “The Russians have another security indicator of a particular service,” say in Roskomsvobod. “This means that this means that the owner of this service refused to provide data on its users according to the absurd and technological point of view by the law that will expand from July 2018 the norm on the storage and granting of Russian special services and all internal correspondence of users according to the adopted according to the adopted. "Package of Yarova."

The list of blocked addresses already includes the addresses of the main pages of messengers, as well as their official IP addresses. Also blocked by the audiovisual chat vchat.

On April 10, for the same reasons, the Zello Inc voice messages service was blocked . The resource administration sent a letter to Roskomnadzor with a request to postpone the blocking before considering the arguments it cited. The requirement put forward by officials to the service was called "absurd", obviously impossible and illegal.

"All voice, text and graphic information in Zello is transmitted directly between devices and is stored only on client devices to ensure the privacy of communication, reduce the cost of the service and ensure scalability," the letter says. Storage of copies of all messages on the company's servers, which RKN insists on, would require, as indicated in Zello Inc, "a multiple increase in the number of servers and would deprive the company to provide a free service."

“This,” the company's administration concluded, “will entail the illegal infringement of constitutional rights of more than 400 thousand active users of Zello in Russia to freedom of speech and the dissemination of information.”

The upcoming Zello blocking became known on April 8th . Officials ordered the company within three days to fulfill their requirement, threatening otherwise by blocking. In Zello Inc. Even then, they called the requirement technically impossible. The order of the RKN in the company’s press release was directly associated with the continuing All-Russian strike of carriers . Administration Zello Inc. She also recalled that after blocking the service, it will still be available through the VPN.

Zello is a free Internet for smartphones. The program is used by more than 100 million people around the world. It is especially popular with professional drivers.