In the thorns of the crown of revolutions

The founder of the Telegram Methaler Pavel Durov blocked the Iranian protest channel Amadnews with more than 1.4 million subscribers due to calls for violence. Durov wrote about this on Twitter.

"The Amadnews Telegram channel began instructing its subscribers to use Molotov cocktail against the police and was suspended because of our rule" no calls for violence. "Be careful - there are lines that cannot be crossed," Durov wrote.

At the same time, Durov assured that the mirrors of the canal will not be blocked if the rules of the messenger are not violated in them.

The channel was blocked after the Minister of Communications Iran Azari Jahromi publicly addressed Durov on Twitter. The minister wrote about a certain channel calling for an armed uprising and demanded "stop such calls through Telegram."

In response to criticism of the decision on blocking Durov, he noted that the messenger blocks the channels only for violations of "very simple rules of use - no public calls for violence, no porn and no copyright violation." “Thousands of opposition channels flourish in Telegram, and we don’t care that local politicians talk about it,” he emphasized.

Nevertheless, by the evening of Sunday, the Supreme National Security Council of Iran completely blocked Telegram and the social network Instagram, reports the Associated Press. It is alleged that this decision is temporary and is made to "maintain peace and security of citizens."

In Iran, the third day continues mass protests against the policy of the authorities. In the city of Dorud, two of their participants were shot dead. The Iranian authorities said that the security forces did not use weapons against the protesters, and accused of the incident “enemies of the revolution” and “foreign agents”.

On Sunday night, the Iranian authorities began blocking mobile Internet. Several leading providers are disabled in Tehran. The Iranian media reported that the authorities intend to block Telegram, the most popular messenger in the country where the main Western social networks are prohibited.

In September, Iran’s authorities opened a criminal case against Durov . The prosecutor Tehran claimed that the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group use the messenger. In addition, as the Iranian authorities believe, the messenger can be used to trade human and drugs, as well as for the spread of child pornography.

Durov denied these accusations of the Iranian authorities. "We are actively engaged in blocking terrorist and pornographic content in Iran. I think that the real reasons are different," he wrote. "Telegram in Iran is used by more than 40 million people, and over all the years of work we have not blocked a single political channel and did not give the authorities a byte of personal data."

"In Russia, Telegram already has about 10 million users, and the country seems to be in a hurry to join Iran on the establishment of cases of the Telegram leadership. Due to the failure to fulfill the anti -constitutional" Law of the FSB ", the administrative protocols, which are believed by lawyers, inevitably lead to trials." Durov noted. "The absence of the opportunity to occasionally visit Russia for me more painfully, more painfully, more painfully, more painfully, more painfully. than the mischief to Iran, first of all, because of the parents.

In Russia, since spring, mass blocking of messengers has continued for refusing to register as distributors of information and cooperate with the authorities, which provides for the "Yarovaya Law". At the end of June, Telegram was also under threat of blocking. The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, demanded that Durov register the service in the register of information distribution organizers. As a result, the department brought the messenger to the register , but Durov promised not to fulfill the "Yarovaya Law" .

On October 16, the peace judge of the judicial section of 383 of the Meshchansky district of Moscow, Julia Danilchik, fined the Telegram Messenger LLP (London) for 800 thousand rubles . The reason was the company's refusal to execute the FSB request to provide information to decode user messages. Judge Danilchik found Telegram guilty of committing an offense provided for in paragraph 2.1 of Article 13.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to fulfill the information distribution by the organizer of information to provide information necessary for decoding electronic messages). It was alleged that the request was related to correspondence in involvement in the attack in the metro of St. Petersburg.