{"id":34956,"date":"2021-01-19T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34956"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:04:50","slug":"pavel-durov-says-telegram-blocked-hundreds-of-calls-for-violence-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/pavel-durov-says-telegram-blocked-hundreds-of-calls-for-violence-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov says Telegram blocked hundreds of calls for violence in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Telegram administrators blocked hundreds of calls for violence in the United States, according to the founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?14\\\" data-telegram-post=\\\"durov\/149\\\" data-width=\\\"100%\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He said that Telegram&#8217;s team is monitoring the situation in the United States, even though American users account for only 2% of the messenger&#8217;s user base.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTelegram welcomes peaceful debates and protests, but our policy explicitly forbids the spread of public calls for violence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderators continue to remove such content, Durov added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">An appeal that could have been a <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/01\/17\/apple-capitol-siege-telegram\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> by the American nonprofit Coalition for a Safer Web demanding Telegram be removed from the App Store. Plaintiffs allege that Telegram disseminates antisemitic, racist and neo-Nazi content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Telegram administrators blocked hundreds of calls for violence in the United States, according to the founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1423,723],"class_list":["post-34956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34958,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions\/34958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}