{"id":991222,"date":"2026-02-11T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991222"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:23:28","slug":"moscow-chokes-telegram-as-it-pushes-state-backed-rival-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/moscow-chokes-telegram-as-it-pushes-state-backed-rival-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow chokes Telegram as it pushes state-backed rival app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s internet watchdog on Tuesday announced it was throttling the Telegram messenger platform for alleged violations of Russian law, as Moscow tries to push Russians to use a more tightly controlled domestic online service. <\/p>\n<p>Moscow has been threatening a host of internet platforms with forced slowdowns or outright bans if they do not comply with Russian laws. <\/p>\n<p>Those laws require data on Russian users to be stored inside the country, and for efforts to be made to stamp out their use for what Moscow calls &#8220;criminal and terrorist purposes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s internet watchdog on Tuesday announced it was throttling the Telegram messenger platform for alleged violations of Russian law, as Moscow tries to push Russians to use a more tightly controlled domestic online service. Moscow has been threatening a host of internet platforms with forced slowdowns or outright bans if they do not comply with Russian laws. Those laws require data on Russian users to be stored inside the country, and for efforts to be made to stamp out their use for what Moscow calls &#8220;criminal and terrorist purposes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}