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National Court orders blocking of Telegram in Spain
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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Not 100% correct. It was blocked because the court requested information from Telegram about copyright hosted content and got ignored by Telegram.
Seems absolutely valid to block a service when it tries to evade national jurisdiction.
And here's why, in a single phrase, I used "somehow"