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No problem, they'll just ban all the other messengers. Line and KakaoTalk are already banned. There's nothing a dictatorship hates more than communications that cannot be eavesdropped on.

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The perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg Metro were using Telegram.

They also shopped in local stores. I don't think it's the reason to close them.

Good thing they weren't using whatever app Snowden's using (Signal?), that would've been awkward.

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