Russia accuses popular Messenger apps for interior crime and sabotage as the online restrictions of the tight Moscow between Ukraine.
Russia has been looking for restrictions on voice calls made in WhatsApp Messenger and Telegram Messenger apps, Moscow’s latest moves to turn on his online control.
The sidewalk on calls should affect WhatsApp’s 96 million monthly users in Russia and Telegram of more than 89 million users, according to the Russian monitoring service Mediascope.
In a statement about a season, Russia’s communications and Internet regulator, Rusomnnador, justified the step as required to fight crime.
“According to the law’s law agencies, and many civilian widgets, a wreath and watsap male shiny has become the main sound services used to defraud and market money, and Russian civilians in sabotage and terrorist activity,” said the regulator.
“Requeststs to take the count ignored the Messenger’s ownership,” it said.
Moscow wants the online massager services to provide access to user data on the law enforcement.
“Approach to foreign messages will be returned after they start connecting with Russian Legisland,” Rusomnnador said.
While Authorries said only voice calls on platforms were defined, Russia’s users also reported that video calls that also expand.
Since the start of Russia’s full order in Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has expanded control of the Russian part of the Internet. Security services often have argued that Ukraine uses a telegram to raise people or do sabotage in Russia.
Russian lovers have adopted a law last month in punitive users for searching for illegal deamp content by authors. There are also popular Messenger services that will be reported by a maximum local Russian app, which the visitors believe will integrate access to the data.
WhatsApp spokesman said in a statement that the encrypted Messenger app “defies goods on destinations to bring people’s right to ensure communication, which is Russia Isaia trying to block it from 100 million Russian people.
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Telegram, which was developed by Russian technology entrepreneur Pavel Dorov, faces poignant accusations in several districts, including Russia, of non -performance engraved against criminal users.
