Pavel Durov announced that a smart vote would be removed from telegrams. “Blocko …

Pavel Durov announced that a smart vote would be removed from telegrams.

“Apple and Google’s application blocking applications creates a dangerous precedent that will affect freedom of speech in Russia and all over the world. Telegram, like all other mobile applications, depends on the Apple and Google ecosystems for further work ….
This year, Apple and Google have already addressed us to delete publicly affordable information in accordance with the laws of individual countries under the threat of the exclusion of Telegram from the Google Play and App Store application directory. Now, judging by the blocking of an application of smart voting, this practice has spread to Russia. A change in the Apple and Google policy will inevitably affect Telegram, as they, being the creators of two main mobile operating systems, are on the top of the “food chain” of information spread and can dictate the rules of the game to developers like us. This is sad, but expected: I have repeatedly written that Apple and Google oligopoly pose a threat to freedom of speech, ”wrote Pavel Durov.