The National Court orders to block Telegram in Spain - GEARRICE
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Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court has ordered the blocking of the Telegram messaging platform in Spain. This is a precautionary measure in response
  • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

    • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      And it is pointless too as there are countless other messaging apps that can be used and countless others ways that can be created to circumvent. Law makers clearly do not get tech.

    • ASaltPepper@lemmy.oneEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      I mean Telegram has been blocked in Russia before and it didn’t stop their operations for too long. At best now some engineer at telegram has one more ticket and things will be back to normal.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        and it didn’t stop their operations for too long

        You had to change proxies regularly, so it did. With some ISPs, at least.

        I think it wasn’t for really blocking it, just to test whether they can block it if they need it, during some big events.

    • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      you didn’t specify your system. If android then there are regularly updated solutions on fdroid. On Linux I’m just using the flathub official package

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      Just use Signal if you want an easy, relatively privacy friendly and secure messenger.

      Telegram hands over data to goverments, is infested with spammers and scammers and its encryption is not end to end for group chat which lets Telegram access those chats.

      Edit: Telegram is great for lots of things like big groups, communities, piracy, drugs etc but its just not the place where you should expect secure communication.

      • turkishdelight@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’m not using Signal as long as Signal Foundation is based in the US. Also Signal is not on FDroid, so I can’t use it anyway.

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          But RusSSian/UAE-based Telegram is fine? 😂

          Also, it really doesn’t matter where Signal is based, as long as it’s client code is open source and it uses E2EE by default. Telegram doesn’t encrypt chats by default, and even if you enable ‘secret chats’ it uses a pretty weak encryption protocol.

          Btw the official version of Telegram isn’t available on F-Droid either, only a fork called Telegram-FOSS. You can get the exact same thing for Signal from a 3rd-party repo: https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/, or use Molly.

          • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            0·
            8 months ago

            Why would you need to use obtanium to get the Signal apk file from that link?

            You can just download the apk from that website and install it. The app can update itself.

              • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                Huh, that’s strange. On my 3 Android devices, I downloaded the APK from the website, and it always auto-updates.

                It existed ever since they added the APK to their website as a compromise for people who don’t want to get Signal from the Play Store.

    • TyrantTW@kbin.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      They do, but this is coming from a right-dominated tribunal known to be extremely conservative and reactionary in nature.