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The manager of the popular messaging application Telegram explained this week that updates of the tool had been blocked by Apple And that The state of exception had been lengthening since April of this year, since Russia banned the use of the application.
This is the hypothesis being considered by the Durov brothers, Pavel and Nikolai, founders of Telegram, who point out that Apple would have sided with Russia, after the The company would have refused to provide keys for the decryption of the communications of the users to the main security agencies of the country.
One day after I issued this complaint, Apple has opened the doors to Telegram for updates So as soon as I got it, the founder of the application has thanked Tim Cook, Apple CEO, for the gesture through a tweet. But what exactly has happened? What are the reasons why the Cupertino company blocked all updates?
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But what is the source of the problem?
The Russian government does not want Telegram to be used in their country. According to them, this application was used to plan the suicide attack that occurred in 2017 and ended with a balance of 16 deaths in the city of Saint Petersburg.
The company has reported that Apple has sided with Russia, with the aim of pleasing them. So they have not been able to carry out updates since April of this year, but not only for Russian users, who represent 7% of the total Telegram, but for the rest of the people who use the application on their iOS devices. Because the truth is that Apple had stopped updates worldwide.
This would have prevented Telegram from catching up to comply with the new European data protection law (GDPR). The Durov brothers, who are also Russian, say that the country's authorities asked Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store.
They believe that Putin's government wanted to spy on users and that they flatly refused. And they add "unfortunately, Apple did not take our side" and what is worse, they put obstacles to prevent updates.Meanwhile, Google, for its part, smoothly carried out the various updates for Android
One year of censorship
The app suffered a first censorship in February of this year, when Apple removed Telegram and its counterpart Telegram X for including inappropriate content Later, since April 2018, not launching the updates that would correspond to the tool - and that are usually done - some Telegram functions did not work normally. The sticker system was one of the victims, because despite having the corrections, Telegram could not launch them through updates.
Thus, while Telegram continues in its efforts to not provide the keys that will allow the Russian government to enter the privacy of users, Apple has no choice but to allow those responsible for this application lcarry out the corresponding updates
If you have this app installed on your phone and have been experiencing problems for weeks now, now is the time to run the update.
