Telegram bans Russia Today
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Did Telegram itself ban them or was it Apple and Google?
AFAIK the Telegram apps on the Apple and Google store are HEAVILY censored. Have been for a while.
In Germany lots of channels critical of Corona measures have been censored but they're still available if you download the app directly from Telegram.
Of course telegram has also started banning some channels completely after pressure from German politicians.
telegram says its Google blocking these channels. not sure how exactly that would work if Telegram is encrypting its traffic
Apple and Google have some way to censor channels they don't like in the apps in their stores. They've been doing that for a while.
No idea whether that's with or without Telegram's cooperation. Either they inject their own censorship mechanism or they forced Telegram to implement it or get banned.
Encrypting traffic means nothing when a hostile party controls one end of the communication. In this case the app.