Roskomnadzor Refuses Telegram Fan Locks

Roskomnadzor promised to stop making large subnets in the registry of prohibited information in an attempt to block the Telegram messenger. The agency will proceed to "more point" actions. Following a closed meeting in Roskomnadzor, it was decided that ROCIT will continue to receive complaints from users affected by the actions of the agency. Also earlier, due to attempts to block Telegram, many scientific and educational sites were unavailable. At the moment, about 20 million IP addresses are blocked, which led to malfunctions of many services. The obligation to provide the secret services with an algorithm for decoding correspondence is contained in the “anti-terrorism” package of laws (known as the “Spring Act”), adopted by the State Duma in June 2016.

The Telegram lock complicates the digitization of the Russian economy. About this ex-Minister of Finance, the head of the Center for Strategic Research Alexei Kudrin said in an interview with Interfax. The decision to block the messenger, according to the Head of the Center for Strategic Research Alexei Kudrin, was not worked out. “It seems to me that this decision, this operation was carried out without sufficient preparation. It was impossible to create a situation that entailed such consequences for users, ”Kudrin said. According to him, the consequences have become "really too heavy."

The software company Flexbby considered that within a few months Russian companies affected by Roskomnadzor’s massive blockages due to the restriction of access to Telegram could lose $ 1 billion. Approximately as many American companies, Google and Amazon, could lose as well.