Durov answered questions about the blocking of the “Male State” and the cat Shlepe

The founder of Telegram talked to users of the messenger for the first time. They asked Durov why they were blocking Navalny’s projects, but not the Male State channel. He was also asked if he considered himself happy

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, first talked to users of the messenger, answering their questions about various locks, the position of Telegram in Russia, and also about Shlepe the cat. Comments Durov’s Chat Russia appeared under one of his posts on Telegram.

About Smart Vote and Male State

From the founder of the messenger, users, in particular, asked why Telegram, blocking channels that, in the opinion of the Russian authorities, violate the law, refuses to block the public of the radical movement “Men’s State”. “We have analyzed this channel, there is no unambiguous legal assessment on it yet,” Durov said in response to this.

In addition, he continued, in contrast to the situation with the project bot The Anti-Corruption Foundation (an organization recognized as extremist in Russia and banned) “Smart Voting”, which sent out voting recommendations to users before the elections, Telegram is not threatened with blocking because of the “Male State”.

According to Durov, Telegram stopped the Smart Voting bot mainly due to the fact that Apple and Google approached the messenger team “with a demand to remove publicly available information in accordance with the laws of individual countries.” Otherwise, they threatened, Telegram could be excluded from the catalogs of Google Play and App Store applications.

Otherwise, the founder of the messenger assured: they work great, despite the fact that the Russian courts issue us fines for this. ” “But yes, if Apple and Google decide that they should be blocked on iOS and Android devices, they will be blocked immediately,” Durov added.