On: Russia threatens to block Telegram

[zzzcpan]

So, I'm guessing Telegram is going to circumvent it in the next release. It's too popular in Russia to simply leave it at that. Signal showed how to do it.

[aaomidi → zzzcpan]

They'd need to move their servers to google cloud platform. And then they'd still be blockable if Russia decides to block Google entirely.

[zzzcpan → aaomidi]

Google is officially whitelisted in Russia since the incident with accidental ban.

[aaomidi → zzzcpan]

In that case it is definitely possible for them to circumvent the ban.

If that happens, Russia would have no way of blocking the app other than DNS blocking which can be simply mitigated against as well.