Recently, popular messaging app Telegram was banned in Brazil. Upon this, a statement was expected from the company and its CEO Pavel Durov, which was on the agenda. But the information that emerged was far from what was expected. Here is the reason why Telegram was banned…
Telegram was banned because he forgot to check his emails
It has been known that Telegram has been under investigation by Brazilian authorities for a while. Finally, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that it banned the popular application. The founder and CEO of the application, Pavel Durov, made the first statement on the subject.
Durov states that he wants Brazil to send the future takedown request to a dedicated email address. But he says he thinks the court didn’t get the e-mail because he disobeyed this request and continued to send the e-mails to the company’s old general purpose address, so he didn’t see the incoming e-mails.
Of course, after the second checks made for now, company executives say that they have reached the relevant e-mails and are trying to reach an agreement with the court. But the statement made by the Brazilian Supreme Court is quite clear. Telegram did not respond to our requests. That’s why it’s banned in Brazil.
Telegram CEO Durov made the following statement publicly on the subject:
It seems that telegram.org is related to outgoing emails between our corporate addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court. We have a problem. As a result of this miscommunication, the court decided to ban Telegram (in Brazil) for not responding. On behalf of our team, I apologize to the Brazilian Supreme Court for our negligence. We could definitely do a better job.
In late February, we complied with another earlier court order. We also responded with a recommendation to send future takedown requests to a dedicated email address. Sorry, our answer must have been lost. Because the court used our old general purpose email address in subsequent attempts to reach us. As a result, we missed their decision in early March that included a follow-up takedown request. Luckily, we found it now and did the right thing. Today we submitted another report to the Court.
As tens of millions of Brazilians rely on Telegram to communicate with their family, friends and colleagues, I ask the Court to consider postponing its decision for a few days at its discretion to allow us to rectify the situation by appointing a representative in Brazil. . This will have an impact on our quicker response to future pressing issues.
The last 3 weeks have been unprecedented for the world and Telegram. Our content moderation team has been flooded with requests from many places. However, I am confident that once a reliable communication channel is established, we can efficiently control takedown requests for public channels that are illegal in Brazil.
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