Vietnam to block Telegram in early June
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Hanoi: Internet service providers in Vietnam must block the Telegram messaging app in the communist country before early June after a request by polic...
Hanoi: Internet service providers in Vietnam must block the Telegram messaging app in the communist country before early June after a request by police, the government said Friday.
Telegram's Russian-born founder and chief executive Pavel Durov was arrested in August last year at a Paris airport and later charged with several counts of failing to curb extremist and terrorist content on the app.
Vietnam's telecommunications department sent letters to internet service providers warning that there were "signs of law violation" on Telegram, citing the ministry of public security, a report on the government's news portal said.
Up to 68 percent of 9,600 channels on Telegram Vietnam contain "poisonous and bad information, the government report said, quoting police.
There are groups and associations on Telegram, involving tens of thousands of members, which disseminate "anti-state documents" and are involved in "reactionary activities", the report added.
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