For those affected by the blocks, Signal recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature.

Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries.

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Why aren’t they blocking telegram too? Is it because they use it a lot and can’t block it or because it is compromised, so they have access when needed?

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They have not enabled the encryption by default and a common user can’t understand that. That is why it isn’t blocked.

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Telegram’s chat aren’t encrypted (in default settings atleast).

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Aren’t e2e encrypted by default you mean.

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e2e are encrypted, but telegram chats are not e2e by default.

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On April 16, 2018, the Russian government began blocking access to Telegram, an instant messaging service. The blocking led to interruptions in the operation of many third-party services, but practically did not affect the availability of Telegram in Russia. It was officially unblocked on June 19, 2020

Some say it was unblocked because they made a deal with Durov. Another opinion is that too many people and services including officials continued to rely on it even during the time it was blocked. Regardless, Telegram did a huge job on circumventing those blocks.

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Telegram isn’t circumventing shit. You cannot circumvent a coubtry-wide block. If I learned anything from Russia it’s that they are very determined when it comes to stuff like that.

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I used telegram during all that time in Russia. It did circumvent the shit out of the RKN. I guess you used somewhat limited data to learn something from Russia.

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I think you are answering your question yourself. There’s nothing you cannot fully block, unless it uses vpns/proxies and then you can try and block those too.

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Whispering? Believe it or not… jail.

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Without having read the article, I guess it relates to the recent Signal blog post by Meredith Whittaker https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please/

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