Roskomnadzor blocked t.me, the domain of short links of the Telegram messenger, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. The basis is Article 15.3 of the Federal Law “On Information”.
The article provides for blocking for the spread of extremism, fakes, calls for protests, or discrediting the armed forces. Most likely, they decided to block it under the article about “fakes” about the Russian army.
According to the Roskomsvoboda Telegram channel, the reason for blocking the Telegram short link service was the material in the channel of the dog Patron calling on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Russian military “not to become fertilizer” and exactly the same calls in the Real War channels (1.4 million readers) and "Dam" (1500 readers).
The t.me address is used for links to channels and users. The entry into the registry means that in the near future, providers will start trying to block Telegram traffic. According to Globalcheck, access to it is already being restricted by Iota, Rostelecom, Megafon and Tele2, the Network Freedoms Telegram channel reports .
The authors of the channel also remind that in 2018 an attempt to block the messenger led to the so-called “IP genocide”. As a result of attempts to block Telegram traffic, hundreds of Internet services turned out to be inaccessible.
Updated at 00:00 30 October. The t.me address has disappeared from the Roskomnadzor block register.