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Spanish Court Orders Nationwide Suspension Of Telegram

March 25, 2024
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Spain’s High Court has ordered the temporary suspension of messaging app Telegram’s services across the country as a ‘precautionary measure.’

 

Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed to temporarily ban the platform after media companies complained the platform allowed users to upload content without their permission.

 

“While the claims are being investigated, Pedraz agreed to block Telegram’s services in Spain. According to the court source, it will be the responsibility of mobile operators to block Telegram’s services,” DW reports.

 

 

“Telegram has been blocked in Spain because Pedro Sanchez’s tyrannical government doesn’t believe in free speech. Millions of Spaniards have been using Telegram for exposing the politicians corrupt lies. Now, they can’t. Welcome to socialism!” Ada Lluch writes.

 

 

The judge issued the order after officials in the Virgin Islands, where Telegram is registered, failed to respond to a court request from July 2023.

 

The court wanted information that would allow it to identify who was behind the accounts in question that were uploading apparently pirated content.

 

The lack of cooperation from the Virgin Islands led him to take this “precautionary measure,” the judge said in Friday’s order.

 

Consumer advocacy group Facua criticized the ruling as disproportionate, warning that it would cause “enormous damage” to millions of the platform’s users.

 

“It is as if they shut down the internet because there are websites that illegally host content protected by copyright,” Facua’s general secretary Ruben Sanchez said.

 

Telegram is the fourth most used messaging service in Spain, according to the competition watchdog CNMC. It was used by almost 19% of Spaniards surveyed by the CNMC.

 

 

 

 

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