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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by EGreg on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:37PM (#24237070)
I remember when Arab Spring was blamed on social media and Google

Then Moscow had a giant demonstration on Red Square and that’s right around the time Putin blinked and started cracking down on such platforms and free speech.

Of course, for those who remember, Telegram was started by Pavel Durov, the “Zuckerberg of Russia” who refused to give out details of VKontakte users, and the mail.ru conglomerate took his company, while he fled to France and started Telegram. Roskomnadzor tried unsuccessfully to ban it in Russia, and inadvertently banned colocated AWS servers hosting LinkedIn etc.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by Udik on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:10PM (#24237371)
> I remember when Arab Spring was blamed on social media and Google

There's a pretty big and well known country that is blaming the election of its president on interference of another country through social media. It seems pretty credible the same social media can have promoted protests in more unstable countries.

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