Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National
Court has ordered a temporary block of Telegram in Spain in response to a lawsuit regarding unauthorized content uploading filed by Mediaset España, EGEDA, A3 Media, and Movistar Plus. The messaging service's suspension is to be enforced by telecommunications operators.
The decision comes after the judge's request for information from the company behind the app went unanswered.
Telegram, developed by Pavel Durov's company, is one of Spain's and the world's most popular messaging apps, with 39.6% of Spaniards using it, according to Statista, while WhatsApp, owned by Meta, leads with 95.5% popularity.
Telegram seems to be working at this time yet but there are starting to appear the first complains from users in the past minutes in Twitter and down detector https://downdetector.es/problemas/telegram/
Summary from multiple sources:
Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court has ordered a temporary block of Telegram in Spain in response to a lawsuit regarding unauthorized content uploading filed by Mediaset España, EGEDA, A3 Media, and Movistar Plus. The messaging service's suspension is to be enforced by telecommunications operators.
The decision comes after the judge's request for information from the company behind the app went unanswered.
Telegram, developed by Pavel Durov's company, is one of Spain's and the world's most popular messaging apps, with 39.6% of Spaniards using it, according to Statista, while WhatsApp, owned by Meta, leads with 95.5% popularity.
Telegram seems to be working at this time yet but there are starting to appear the first complains from users in the past minutes in Twitter and down detector https://downdetector.es/problemas/telegram/