Internet activists: Mail.ru helps Roskomnadzor in the fight against Telegram

The Russian IT-Holding Mail.ru Group helps Roskomnadzor in the fight against the Telegram messenger, says Internet activists who monitor locks. According to them, Mail.ru "scanning the Internet" and informs Roskomnadzor about private VPN and proxy services related to Telegram.

There is no confirmation of this information from other sources yet. The representative of Mail.ru commented on these messages: “We also learned about it from telegram activists tonight. We found out that this activity took place on rented virtual servers in our cloud service. In the morning we blocked this client because we are for free Internet and do not want to provide cloud capacities for any restrictions on the Internet.”

Roskomnadzor is trying to limit access to Telegram for the refusal of its developers to transfer the FSB of Russia to encryption keys from user correspondence. In the fight against the messenger, the department has already blocked about 18 million IP addresses of large American companies. In Russia, hundreds of online services and Roskomnadzor himself suffered from this.

Telegram is still working. In addition, the traffic of the messenger has only grown from the moment the blocking began. The American Union of Civil Freedoms (ACLU) called on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple to support Telegram and allow its developers to replace the IP address without restrictions.

Against the backdrop of attempts to block Telegram in Russia, the campaign of the Tamtam messenger began. It was created by Mail.ru, connected with the Kremlin by billionaire Alisher Usmanov. Boris Dobrodeev, CEO of Mail.ru Group holding, previously stated that "it is incorrect to connect the launch and promotion of Tameta with Telegram lock."