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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by Aissen on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:11AM (#17195977)
Since they have blocked VPN apps in China, the cat is out of the bag: they have proved to every country that they have the technical means to block a whatever app they like in a given country, and that they'd cave to local regulations to prevent being blocked. That's the cost of doing business anywhere, whether a dictatorship or not.

They might stall for a time, but they'll end up blocking Telegram in Russia as well. And other apps will follow.

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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by codedokode on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:12PM (#17197452)
As I understand, Apple has blocked updates for all countries, and Telegram is a British company, not Russian, and russian users are only 7% of its userbase.
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