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Political Stickers in Telegram

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 6:18 am
Internet censorship in Iran is one of the strictest in the world. It began to work actively in 2009, when Facebook was banned ahead of the presidential elections. In 2012, Google, Twitter, YouTube were blocked, and users were only able to access mail on .ir or gov.ir domains. Facebook Messenger was also blocked.

Telegram was not blocked. Moreover, it began to position itself sweden whatsapp number list as the most secure messenger, which encrypts the content of correspondence when transmitting data. Due to this, the service gained popularity among Iranian youth, who began to actively share stickers with political jokes and adult content through it.

Political Stickers in Telegram
However, bots providing access to pornography and political stickers were quickly banned. However, access to correspondence remains hidden from the service itself (at least in secret chats).

A similar example is the popularity of Line in Turkmenistan. The messenger itself comes from Japan, and is more common in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea. But due to the fact that other services are regulated or banned, Line began to quickly gain momentum, and suddenly became the most popular messenger in Turkmenistan. This was facilitated by the fact that Line is a messenger with elements of social networks, the ability to leave comments.

The messenger has already become unavailable in Turkmenistan several times. Some users attribute this to the closure of access from providers during critical situations in the country (for example, in 2011, during the explosion of a warehouse in Abadan and during the incident in Krasnovodsk).

What are the most popular messengers in the world
What are the most popular messengers in the world
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LinkedIn and Medium, despite their popularity worldwide and lack of moderation, remain accessible in China. The reason is that the audience of users of the applications themselves is not very large. The example of Medium is especially indicative in this case: you can write anything on the blog platform, but the main channels for distributing texts from the blog are Facebook and Twitter, access to which is prohibited. LinkedIn, on the other hand, has to make concessions on content moderation.