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1. Telegram IS centralized.

2. They collect all IPs and domains and ban them on provider level. There is a law which forces internet providers to sync the list of banned resources and prohibit access to them.

Basically they ban hundreds of thousands resources already.

Adding few thousands of nodes may take some time, but:

1. It is possible to do for sure within months

2. When you ban 20-30% of decentralized system it looses 20-30% of users which makes it not that attractive compared to allowed alternatives which are controlled by the government (like vk.com)




What about if the decentralized system uses a DHT and contebt addressable protocol like IPFS? Banning 20% won't do much to it.




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