Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would be surprised if they banned Telegram.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As much as I’d love to get rid of SMS and email, there’s no way Russia isn’t collecting and processing all of the information in this app.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s basically a frontend to VK with functionality like that of Telegram.

  Funny how much you can do if you do it slowly. Say, if 10 years ago someone would say all of Russia is moving to the only state-approved IM which is the same as VK, I think there’d be riots, LOL, even in Russia, LOL, it’d be like blocking all porn.

  Since TG is most likely compromised, I think this won’t be a significant change really.

  Not being able to use WA for voice calls would suck though.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Back to IRC for them.

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