Russia (bbabo.net), - On Smolenskaya Square, they commented on the attack of the German authorities on the popular chat messenger Telegram, which was created by Russian programmer Pavel Durov and has more than five million users in Germany alone. "Official Berlin has publicly declared war on Telega," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel in response to a threat from the Ministry of Internal Affairs F to block the platform. Moreover, the German government intends to seek the solidarity of the entire EU in its own interests.

Zakharova recalled that the other day, the new German Interior Minister Nancy Feser, in an interview with Die Zeit, directly allowed the messenger to be blocked if ways were not found to comply with the requirements of German law. Moreover, Germany, according to Ms. Feser, "may not be able to cope alone as a nation-state," and then a "pan-European solution" to this issue will be required.

And Minister of Justice F. Marco Buschmann, in an interview with Bild am Sonntag, threatened Durov with multimillion-dollar fines. "Yes, official Berlin has publicly declared war on the Cart. Otherwise, it is impossible to qualify the coordinated interviews of two members of the federal government," the diplomat noted.

German politicians and officials have previously spoken out critically against Telegram, which is increasingly being used by various segments of the population, including "covid dissidents", opponents of government measures to combat the "corona". The fact that their protests are becoming more radical, the F authorities blame Telegram. The essence of the claims boils down to the fact that moderators rarely agree with the requirements to remove this or that content, which is not surprising, because such an approach is inherent in the very principle of the platform.

Also, the messenger does not have a representative office or an official contact person for resolving disputes in Germany, but it does not exist in other countries either. In fact, the Germans demand an exception for themselves. According to Der Spiegel, the new government would like to extend the German social media conduct law to Telegram, although the chat messenger is not one of them. And the Minister of the Interior of the German state of Lower Saxony proposed to force Apple and Google to prevent app updates on the gadgets of German users.

On Smolenskaya Square they insist that we are talking about censorship in Germany, which is reaching a new level

Earlier, Maria Zakharova recalled that in 2018, when a Russian court imposed temporary restrictions on access to the Telegram messenger, the German media did not disregard "another attack on freedom of speech in Russia." "Everything seems to be logical: we are bad, they are good. Three years have passed. It was getting dark. And now a targeted political campaign is gaining momentum in Germany, the task of which is to limit - what would you think - the Telegram messenger. I love it," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry noted. On Smolenskaya Square they insist that we are talking about censorship, which is reaching a new level.

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