After Russia banned messaging app Telegram for not helping the security services access user data, the task for the Kremlin’s internet censors was simple: block access to the app and show their resolve in their wars on user privacy.
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An activist of Vesna (Spring) youth movement fills a bag with two thousand paper planes, as a symbol of Telegram, during a flash-mob near the Roskomnadzor building in Saint Petersburg on April 13, 2018, as they protest against the blocking of the popular messaging app "Telegram"in Russia, after it refused to give state security services access to private conversations.
