Will Telegram be blocked? Futurist has compiled a complete chronology of the relationship between Roskomnadzor and the messenger. The FSB was added to the main characters, demanding information to decode user messages. "Messenger of terrorists", information attack of TV channels, "sabotage of state interests" and the reaction of Runet users - in this material.
Prologue
On the morning of June 23, a closed meeting of State Duma deputies with the head of the FSB took place Alexander Bortnikov dedicated to cybersecurity. There, the deputies discussed the need to block foreign messengers and create their own.
“Cybersecurity is now the number one agenda, the creation of our own computer systems and software and the creation of hardware, the devices themselves, based on Russian developments. While the servers are with them (abroad), they also have informational influence in their hands, "said Dmitry Savelyev, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, in a conversation with Vedomosti.
Step 1
Almost immediately after the meeting, the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov posted on the official website of the department an open message to the Telegram administration and the creator of the service Pavel Durov , in which he urged the messenger to register in the register as a distributor of information and not ignore their appeals. Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev suggested that Telegram's response would be rather "caustic", as a result of which Roskomnadzor would block the service.
If this happens, the messenger will be blocked until its management fulfills the requirements. According to Zharov, Roskomnadzor sends daily requests to Telegram, but there has been no reaction to them yet.
Step 2
A few hours later Pavel Durov answered Roskomnadzor in his Vkontakte page... "It is ironic that there is no blocking of US-controlled Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger on the agenda in Russia, but blocking of Telegram, which is neutral towards Russia, is being actively discussed," Durov wrote.
He also clarified that if Telegram is blocked, then the correspondence of Russian officials, their communication with friends and relatives and other sensitive data will be stored on American cloud services, which "from the outside looks like a kind of sabotage of state interests."
Step 3
Roskomnadzor instantly reacted to Durov's words by posting a post in their groups on social networks.
“If we talk about the essence of Pavel Valerievich’s answer, I must say that, unfortunately, he is neutral towards terrorists and criminals who use his messenger, and absolutely ignores the safety of ordinary Telegram users,” Zharov wrote.
Step 4
The head of the Chechen Republic also entered the dialogue Ramzan Kadyrov , who spoke out on his Telegram channel. He called on Zharov and Durov to sit down at the negotiating table and meet in Grozny, since he himself uses the messenger, but at the same time is against violating the laws of the Russian Federation.
Step 5
Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Oleg Ivanov in a conversation with TASS, he spoke about the future of messengers, which "have a maximum of 3-4 years left."
“I would like to highlight one point here. According to forecasts of analysts in the field of Telecom, messengers, in fact, live for a maximum of three or four years. They are being replaced by another technology - a kind of browser with all these functions. "
However, he did not say which analysts predict the fall of messengers.
Step 6
Pavel Durov responded to accusations of supporting terrorism on his Vkontakte page, stating that the service is regularly fighting terrorist propaganda.
“This position is far from reality. Since the beginning of this month alone, Telegram has blocked more than 5,000 public channels and groups associated with terrorist propaganda. Anyone can get acquainted with the statistics of daily blocking of terrorists in the t.me/isiswatch channel. "
UPD
Step 7
From Friday June 23 to Sunday June 25, federal channels launched an information attack on Pavel Durov's messenger. Dmitry Kiselev from Russia 1 named his "communication system for terrorists", in addition, the presenter noted that Telegram is used by drug dealers. On Channel One, Durov was accused of anarchism and also reported that a number of terrorist organizations use Telegram. As an example, the plot mentioned last year's terrorist attacks in Europe. On NTV told that the messenger is about to be blocked. The reason is that all other applications have agreed to cooperate, but Telegram is fighting off the laws of the Russian Federation. And, of course, there are drug dealers there.
In addition, the FSB announced that it was Telegram that was used to prepare the terrorist attack in the subway in St. Petersburg on April 3 of this year, which the TV channels argued for their position.
"The most active members of international terrorist organizations on the territory of the Russian Federation use the Telegram messenger, which provides terrorists with the opportunity to create secret chats with a high level of encryption of transmitted information," the FSB Russian Public Relations Center said in a statement.
Step 8
Pavel Durov answered this too, noticing that Roskomnadzor employees do not understand the terms they use.
“The head of Roskomnadzor said that Telegram should give the special services“ decryption keys ”so that they can read users' correspondence and catch terrorists. This requirement not only contradicts the 23rd article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the right to privacy of correspondence, but also demonstrates ignorance of how communication is encrypted in 2017.
In 2017, the exchange of secret information is based on end-to-end encryption, to which the owners of messengers do not and cannot have "decryption keys". These keys are stored only on the devices of the users themselves. Although Telegram was the pioneer of this technology, today all popular messengers use end-to-end encryption, including WhatsApp, Viber, iMessage and even Facebook Messenger. "
He also noted that blocking Telegram will not affect the activities of terrorists in any way, since they can use a dozen other messengers built on end-to-end encryption.
Step 9
Durov replied FSB for the statement that criminals use Telegram when planning terrorist acts.
“The timing of the information that Telegram was allegedly used in the preparation of a terrorist attack almost three months ago raises questions. It is sad if the Russian special services exploit such a tragedy as a pretext to increase their influence and control over the population. "
He further noted that any messenger can be used for criminal purposes, and “the encryption of these services either equally protects all users, or puts all of them at risk. The rejection of end-to-end encryption in a single country will make tens of millions of people defenseless against hacker attacks and blackmailing corrupt officials. " The creator of Telegram also points out that, for example, terrorists used ordinary SMS and disposable phones to carry out last year's attack in Paris.
Step 10
Runet users are actively discussing the situation around Telegram.
The reaction from the Facebook community has been equally strong.
Publisher Ilya Krasilshchik started a discussion about the future of Telegram, remembering the finalists of the competition for state messengers.
“A few obvious thoughts about telegrams:
1.It will be blocked (the initiative of not Roskomnadzor, obviously, does not make the RKN better)
2.Block absolutely through the ass
3.sides will not delete it
4. everything will work, only a little worse
5.Durov does everything right
6. This level of blocking has never happened in Russia. this is a new level that opens up great opportunities for the next blocking.
7. "Cibrus" ("Cybernica"), Staply ("Primavera"), "Answer" (UKT), Actor ("Actor"), eMotion ("Megafon"), "Cube" ("Cube Platform"), Flodium ("Ommji Technology"), Titanium (Nexters), ICQ2016 (Mail.Ru), Dialog ("Dialogue"), Bellchat (FGUP "GlavNIVTs" of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation), B2G Messenger ("Rostelecom") and RTIMS ("RT -Inform ")
Do you know what it is? This is a list of the finalists of the state messenger competition (the list is taken from the April article of Gazeta.ru). They will not succeed in any messenger at least somewhat popular, but they will spend money. And they will also cause harm - these people go to meetings in the State Duma and talk about how important it is to start regulating messengers and how eagerly they are ready to cooperate with any regulatory authorities.
And about the terrorists and laughter and sin, but what a great opportunity for the FSB to explain why they missed the terrorist attack. "
Stepan Danilov , founder of MeYou-networking service, made my prediction regarding blocking of other sites. In his opinion, Facebook will be next to Telegram.
“Telegram will be blocked the other day. Unfortunately. Durov, naturally, will not provide anything in order not to discredit the image of a "safe" messenger. Roskomnadzor, of course, since it went public with this statement, will not be able to roll back and be spat upon. As in the story with Linkedin, the Russian people will be heroic and write that "we can easily bypass all this through a VPN." Install an inconvenient, paid pad on phones and computers. Naturally, like that 0.0001% of terrorist criminals whom the ILV is allegedly trying to track down.
I am extremely surprised by people on Facebook who get into arguments or laugh that we will switch to another messenger, install a VPN, etc. I would not be surprised by my classmates, because there are vegetables.
And people on Facebook surprise that, instead of asking familiar officials or supporters of the authorities like Klimenko ******* with questions, presenting them at least somehow, writing their opinion instead of posts about the weather or what is even more important you write.
That is, to show your mass civil position of not supporting what the authorities are doing, instead of fighting in the comments with those who do not know how to VPN.
Naturally, RKN did not plan to catch anyone. He just needs to read the correspondence of the opposition, collect compromising evidence on entrepreneurs (we all fakap, violations of legal entities, if any, we discuss translations with employees in correspondence) and monitor / ban growing groups of opposition discussions or discontent and their new opinion leaders.
Businesses were built around Linkedin and Telegram: In addition to the usual communication tool, it was used by:
- as a media
- as a sales channel with analytics
- as a feedback form on sites
- how bot chat capabilities
- as group communities, clubs
- as telephony services for small businesses
- authorization to sites
So for the sake of control, not for the sake of 0.0001% of criminals, degrade another working tool for 99.9999% of users
I had a colleague from Turkmenistan, a very closed country where the KGB has dominance over almost 100% of the lives of citizens, where almost everything on the Internet is prohibited. And people live in high risk of jail, using the minimum, at their own peril and risk.
Exit visas, almost all state business, only allowed by the media with propaganda, wiretapping, no opposition, etc. A copy of North Korea, only living on gas revenues. So he managed to migrate to Russia, because somehow you can live there only as a vegetable and only in silence. Because you cannot fight this alone, continuing to support such a state on your own taxes. You can only leave or live in silence.
Linkedin -> Telegram -> Facebook
Facebook will be next. "
Even Patriarch Kirill could have spoken about the personality of Pavel Durov, about which on his Facebook page joked David Homak.
"Pavel Durov is the Antichrist!"
According to him, all considerations of privacy are "secondary to morality." “I am deeply convinced that this temptation, if you will, the historical temptation that led Durov to make these simply out of the ordinary decisions, that all this must pass, because otherwise human society, breaking the link between freedom and moral responsibility, between the law and the moral principle, will become unviable, "said Patriarch Kirill."
But then it turned out that, unfortunately, there is some truth in this joke.
Step 11
The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, answered Pavel Durov about the right of citizens to personal correspondence and what Telegram should do to avoid blocking:
"There is no question that there will be access to user correspondence. There is only one question - the five identifiers that the messenger must report to Roskomnadzor, they will be officially entered into the information distribution register. That's the point."
What else did Roskomnadzor prohibit?
We have collected 10 cases of resource blocking in one video so that you know exactly what not to do.
1) The Russian version of Google was blocked for a redirect from the bookmaker's website. "
2) Linkedin violated the law on the localization of personal data by storing information about Russian users outside the Russian Federation.
3) Youtube was temporarily blocked for videos titled "An Ideal Way of Suicide" and "Creation of 4) the Russian Insurgent Army". After deleting the videos, the video hosting was unlocked.
4) Lurkomorye was blocked without any adequate reason for an honor and dignity claim from the Federal Drug Control Service (Federal Drug Control Service).
5) Absurdopedia was blocked from the article "How to commit suicide correctly".
6) Wikipedia did not please Roskomnadzor with an article about smoking cannabis.
7) Vkontakte was blocked for publics with child pornography. At the request of users, the resource was unblocked.
8) Librusek e-library has been blocked for the "Anarchist Cookbook."
9) The video hosting Vimeo was blocked for the videos of the ISIS group banned in the Russian Federation posted on it.
10) Steam has been blacklisted for drug use information.
Meanwhile
Telegram has become the most downloaded application in the ranking of the Russian App Store. After the threat of being blocked on June 26, the messenger rose from seventh to first place in the list.
Action 12 (28.06)
On his Vkontakte page Durov
04.24.2018 at 16:23 04.24.2018 at 16:50
Naked Torso and Digital Resistance. How Pavel Durov became a symbol of freedom and a hero of the generation
The creator of the popular social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, was a popular person on the Russian Internet for many years - each of his posts was distributed in thousands of reposts and became an informational source for the media. But the story with the blocking of Telegram in Russia brought the image of Durov to a new level - from an IT genius he turned into a symbol of freedom and independence from state foundations. At his call, people start up, set up. And many even say that Durov is worthy to become a new political leader.
"Durov, return the wall"
It is difficult to find a more common phrase about VKontakte than a call to the founder of the social network to return the wall. Younger users no longer remember that once personal pages had a rating, they could write anonymous letters to each other, and most importantly, there was a wall on which they could leave graffiti and conduct endless dialogues.
In October 2010, the wall was removed, and the user's personal page acquired a more or less modern look. The changes caused a wave of protest, which resulted in the phrase "Durov, return the wall!"
Back in 2014, Pavel Durov sold his stake in VKontakte and ceased to be the CEO of the company. But until now, if any problems occur in the social network, many users write: "Durov, return the wall!"
Pavel Durov's views on life and politics
Pavel Durov has been actively leading the VKontakte page since 2007 and talks not only about the news of his business, but also reacts to current events or simply shares his views on life. For example, in 2013, he condemned the US fight against Edward Snowden and was glad that Russia had granted him temporary asylum.
Pavel Durov shared his vision of the development of his native St. Petersburg. The businessman, who, as he himself claims, now lives outside of Russia, published whole lists of reasons to stay in the country and not leave it. Living in Russia is worth living because of talented and beautiful people, natural and cultural resources, low taxes, potential for development and freedom of expression - so Durov wrote back in March 2014.
But already in April, while leaving the company, Pavel said that needs to be changed in Russia so that he can return to his homeland. These are an honest elective judicial system, simplification of laws, economic autonomy of regions, tax cuts through the redistribution of profits from the sale of oil and gas, destandardization of education, abolition of "feudal remnants" such as military service and registration.
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Durov speaks not only on social and political topics. He gives advice to young people and encourages them not to pay attention to money, but to strive only for personal freedom.
There is an ancient saying: “The slave does not want to find freedom; he wants to have his own slaves. " A person cannot become truly free as long as he exists in the dead-end paradigm "slave - master". In this system, any master is someone's slave, and any slave is someone's master. Remaining a slave to money, it is impossible to become the true master of your own life Pavel Durov
On the 10th anniversary of VKontakte Pavel told about the ten most important lessons that he learned in the process of creating the largest social network in the CIS.
Paul spoke several times about self-development and a healthy lifestyle. WITH fasting 2013, in which Durov urges not to consume alcohol and junk food, play sports and creativity, read books instead of watching TV and help other people, it is difficult to disagree.
And here fast 2017, for those who strive for creation, included dubious points, such as refusing to take medicines, meat and tea, and caused numerous ridicule. Because of this, they became a meme.
Finally Durov tells why does not note holidays, and calls refuse from friends on social networks - after all, everyone has had all the most important contacts for a long time in the messenger. Pavel also shares his views on the telegram channel. Many of his publications become news feeds for the media and generate lively discussion on the network. Pavel Durov is one of the leaders of public opinion for the Russian-speaking segment of the network.
Pavel Durov shirtless
In August 2017, Pavel Durov reacted to another batch of photos of Vladimir Putin on vacation without a shirt. He posted a naked torso on Instagram and announced #PutinShirtlessChallenge.
My Instagram needs to be seriously stepped up to keep up with the shirtless photos of Mr. Putin. If you are Russian, you need to join the #PutinShirtlessChallenge (or they will forget about you). Two rules from Putin - no photoshop, no artificially pumped up muscles. Otherwise you are not alpha Pavel Durov
The flash mob became popular, many people really began to upload their photos with a naked torso. It remained a mystery what Durov wanted to say - whether to troll Putin, or to support the president amid the first news about the possible blocking of Telegram in Russia. The first version seems more likely, given Paul's free views. Plus he posted on VKontakte fotozhabu with a fish and a hat, very similar to the original picture of Putin.
He threw out the feint with a naked torso again in 2018, when the Telegram messenger successfully overcame the attempts of Roskomnadzor to block him. Pavel posted a picture against the backdrop of the desert in Abu Dhabi, went online in a matter of minutes.
Bad Pavel Durov
But in the guise of Prometheus, bringing progress to people, not everything is so perfect. Durov's most famous trick is throwing five-thousandth bills out of the window of the VKontakte office in St. Petersburg. Everything happened on May 27, 2012 on the city day. Durov and company produced airplanes with money, and the raging crowd rushed to pick it up. According to eyewitnesses, it came to fights and broken noses.
A total of ten notes were issued. How explained Durov himself, so he and his colleagues wanted to maintain the festive spirit in the city.
Colleagues decided to support the holiday atmosphere in the form of a small action, but they had to quickly stop - the people began to become angry Pavel Durov
Another dubious story, in which Pavel Durov was involved, concerned the dismissal of Anton Rosenberg, the former technical director of VKontakte, who switched over to work on Telegram. Rosenberg had a falling out over a girl with an old friend, Nikolai Durov, Pavel's older brother, who created VKontakte and Telegram with him.
Pavel took the position of his brother, and Rosenberg was fired. But then Durov began to pretend that Rosenberg did not work at Telegram at all, and called the former employee mentally ill. Anton proved that the Russian Telegraph LLC is the property of Durov, as well as the Telegram Ltd. company registered in Malaysia. different sides of the conflict, but this story as a whole was clearly not good for Durov.
Durov's digital resistance
The situation with the blocking of Telegram in Russia in April 2018 became one of the most discussed events; for many users, the messenger has become a familiar and convenient product for business and personal contacts. The more attention was riveted to "Telegram", the more attention was received by Durov himself.
Even before the blocking began, he said that the administration of the messenger would not give up the encryption keys and would preserve the users' right to confidentiality. Immediately after the court ruled in favor of Roskomnadzor, which pleased the supporters of the free Internet.
(At the end of the post, the statement of Pavel Durov about religions, and which of them he considers himself to be).
THE RULES OF LIFE OF PAUL DUROV:
1. I am peaceful, I am a vegetarian, and I do not like wars.
2. I sold my share to VKontakte, as its presence could prevent me from making the right decisions. But I have no regrets - protecting people's privacy is worth it and much more. Since December 2013, I have no property, but I still have something more important - a clear conscience and ideals that I am ready to defend.
3. Compromise is worse than any of the alternatives.
4. I was visiting very rich people, I was on large yachts, private planes, villas - and I clearly understood that I did not need all this.
5. Universal love is an alarming sign for a person accustomed to swimming against the tide.
6. Remember those times when your opinion was completely contrary to the opinion of others? These are the most precious moments to grasp with a stranglehold. The world around us is evolving so rapidly that conventional wisdom becomes a mockery of common sense before our very eyes.
7. The idea is enough 10% of convinced supporters to convert the remaining 90% of society to its side. Convinced people may be less than 10% - 5%, 2%, even a thousandth of a percent of the population. But if their belief in success and dedication to the idea are unshakable, they cannot be resisted. In an extreme case, one person's faith is enough to make changes of any scale. Yours, for example.
8. Disbelief in the ability to change the world is worse than laziness, drunkenness or drug addiction. Because that is what causes them.
9. A small reminder for adherents of positive thinking. From the phrase “be healthy” it automatically follows that you don't have to be. The call to “believe in yourself” implies that the reader is not doing this at the moment.
10. Always, in every minute of your life, even when you are absolutely happy, have one attitude towards the people around you: in any case, I will do what I want, with or without you.
11. Communication is overrated. An hour of loneliness is more productive than a week of talking.
12. The ability to concentrate on one lesson for many hours is a skill that is less and less common in our mobile-online era. But it is precisely this skill that is required for an intellectual, creative, or spiritual breakthrough. The future belongs to those who develop immunity to technological attention traps and retain the ability for prolonged concentration.
13. A characteristic feature of our civilization is the love for medicines, which are more dangerous than the disease itself.
14. No one has the right to prohibit the deputies of our parliament from making loud statements.
15. The most dangerous poison is informational.
16. A bureaucratic structure that is meant to deal with something is unlikely to remove the root of the problem. It is more likely that she will quietly stimulate what she must destroy. Only in this way will it be able to expand its influence and funding.
17. Where there is no competition, there is no progress.
18. Simplify.
P.S. Pavel Durov on religions.
