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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by hiq on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:32AM (#24867965)
It's better to ask why Telegram was blocked, and I think it's often been because of their channels:

https://telegram.org/tour/channels

In this case it's more relevant to ask why Twitter or Facebook haven't been blocked (if they haven't).

I think WA has a similar feature ("broadcast") but not as widely used (since it is limited to 256 people).

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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by smileybarry on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:51PM (#24871424)
WhatsApp broadcasts act a little differently than Telegram channels; they end up as normal messages in a 1-on-1 chat with each recipient (with a megaphone icon next to it), so it's not something you can join or even have as a separate section.

WhatsApp groups can be set to act like channels, however, by changing permissions to allow just group admins to send messages.

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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by ddingus on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:59PM (#24871496)
This.

Channels are pretty much news feeds of note.

And they scale from a community, through to global classes of people.

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