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Telegram restricts access to Hamas channels on Google, Apple stores (www.aljazeera.com)

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Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

Hamas’s official account, the account of its armed wing the Qassam Brigades, and the news account Gaza Now have not been accessible on versions of Telegram downloaded from Google Play or Apple’s App Store since last week.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did they restrict it or is this more app stores restricting it for their app store users? Or have those app stores put so much. Pressure on telegram that the CEO finally caved and did this in the select countries those app stores operate in to comply with legal requirements or app store TOS requirements?