Last Friday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov revealed that their application will be using its built-in systems to bypass the ban Russia had brought down last Friday. Durov said on his VK page that users will not have to do anything. However, he cannot guarantee that the messaging app will work 100% without using VPNs. A Russian court had already ruled in favor of the Roskomnadzor to ban the encrypted messaging service in the country, but the date of effectivity had not been specified. Source: Reuters
Germany has begun enforcing the The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law which is set to penalize social media sites for failure to quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and other illegal material. The law was passed in June 2017 and came into force this October. Websites and online services that fail to remove said material within 24 hours may face fines of up to 50m euro (£44.3m). However, they will be given leeway and may act on complex cases within a week. It is said that the law aims to target Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, but is also likely to affect […]
