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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truth Hurts" data-source="post: 29717350" data-attributes="member: 477372"><img src="https://bfmcms.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/websiteimages/live-and-learn/2023-06-07_should-the-malaysian-government-ban-telegram/og_e20c5167-d0d7-4c3c-b658-872245e6fd72.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Seventy-two percent of Ukrainians use Telegram as their main source of information. For 75%, it is also their first choice of communication tool, including hundreds of thousands of servicemen in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the president himself, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. These statistics were provided in 2023 by the Media Detector consulting firm and used by the backers of a legal norm that wants to place limits on the use of the application. The Ukrainian parliament, the Rada, has since last week been studying week a bill that threatens to shut Telegram down. The measure, which has proven very unpopular but has garnered the support of deputies from four political groups in the Rada, is based on the hypothesis that the Russian Security Services (FSB) have access to information about its users, and also on the fact that citizens can consult the invader’s media and<a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-01/spies-agents-of-influence-and-disinformation-russia-redoubles-its-operations-ahead-of-the-european-elections.html" target="_blank"> </a>russian propaganda accounts.“Predictably, there is a public smear campaign against the authors of the bill,” deputy Mikola Kniazhytskyi of the European Solidarity party, the main opposition force, said on Espreso TV on March 27. The proposal has also been signed by several representatives of Zelenskiy’s People’s Servant party, which has an absolute majority in the Rada. Ukrainian citizens can consult Telegram without limits, as opposed to surfing the internet or following news outlets regulated by the Ukrainian media law. Any organization accused of spreading propaganda promoting the Russian invasion can be prosecuted in court. Websites registered in Russia are blocked in Ukraine, but not only that: as EL PAÍS has been able to verify, at least one Amnesty International report from 2022, which was harshly criticized by the Ukrainian authorities, cannot be viewed online from inside Ukraine.The proposed law, dubbed in the media as “the law to block Telegram,” demands changes on the part of the companies that own these communication applications. Kniazhytskyi calls for Telegram to act in the same way as Facebook or YouTube: if there is <a href="https://english.elpais.com/technology/2023-10-31/frances-haugen-facebook-whistleblower-in-10-years-we-will-wonder-why-we-didnt-regulate-social-networks-sooner.html" target="_blank">content that is reported as violent</a>, or users who are denounced for distributing false information, it must be removed. The Security Services of Ukraine (SSU) have already asked Telegram to take action against 26 users with hundreds of thousands of followers who justify the Russian invasion.If these apps serve as an information channel, under the proposed bill they should be subject to the law on media regulation and the criminal code; these companies, according to the draft regulation, should have a fixed representation in Ukraine and should declare who their shareholders are and where they are domiciled. If a shareholder is a Russian resident, the app would not be able to operate in Ukraine. This measure is mainly aimed at Telegram: its founder, <a href="https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-03-30/pavel-durov-the-visionary-whose-alternative-to-facebook-was-snatched-away-by-the-kremlin-and-counterattacked-with-an-even-bigger-hit-telegram.html" target="_blank">Pavel Durov</a>, is Russian, although a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and resident in Dubai.Yaroslav Yurchishin, chairman of the Rada’s committee on freedom of speech and promoter of the law, is convinced that Durov remains a Russian citizen and that he has some agreement with the Kremlin. “Probably, there is some control over Telegram on the Russian side. There is no guarantee that user information does not go to the Russian secret services,” Yurchishin said Monday on RBC media. The law does not facilitate a decision as forceful and complex as completely shutting down access to Telegram, Yurchishin said, but it is on the table if it were to be confirmed as a threat to national security.<a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-02/ukraine-considers-banning-telegram-if-app-is-confirmed-as-threat-to-national-security.html" target="_blank">https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-02/ukraine-considers-banning-telegram-if-app-is-confirmed-as-threat-to-national-security.html</a></blockquote>

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