Do you regularly use Telegram for your communication? In that case, if you live in Spain, it is best to urgently look for an alternative, because the service aims to stop being available from our country within a few hours, two days at the most. Because? Well, because according to ElDiario Judge Santiago Pedraz, President of Court Number 1 of the National Court, ordered the blocking of the telegram in Spain. At the time of publication of this report, the Justice Intelligence Section has not released any communication in this regard.

Order to block Telegram in Spain responds toin the absence of a response from the persons responsible for the service to the requests formulated by Pedraz, in a complaint filed jointly by Mediaset, Antena 3, Movistar and Egeda. In it, these entities accuse the service of the Dúrov brothers. to be able to use Telegram to upload and share copyrighted content.

Since a national court ordered to block Telegram in Spain, It is the operators who must respond to this measure establishing the necessary means so that its users no longer have access to the service, and this explains why, at least according to DownDetector, the first cases of users not having access to the service are already being recorded. So the key is how ISPs will act, or rather when, as it seems unlikely that they will ignore the National Court’s request.

Although this is easily deduced, it is important to clarify We are talking, yes, about a precautionary measurealthough it has not been revealed whether it has a maximum duration or whether, on the contrary, it can be extended sine die until those responsible for Telegram respond to the demands presented by the National Court.

Although it is still too early to coldly evaluate the blocking of Telegram in Spain based on the order of the National Court, although we will certainly do so after checking the development of the application of this measure, it is somewhat shocking to see that measures of this type, with the impact they can have, are received with this haste without giving the users of the affected services some time reserve reasonable so that they can look for alternatives and start using them if necessary.

It is of course true that Telegram’s user share is modest when compared to other similar services, especially WhatsApp, so it makes a lot of sense to think that if Meta is affected by this complaint, measuring Yes, it would be used with more user-friendly termspp. And in other circumstances, one would expect the temporary margin users need to come from ISPs, but even if that were the case, it doesn’t seem likely that the “extension” could be extended beyond Monday.

Map of Telegram access incidents in Spain. DownDetector.

Now of course there is a question What will happen in the next hours, days and weeks. There is an immediate threat, in addition to surprise, that the blocking of Telegram in Spain will be extended to make it impossible to access the service from any place in our geographical area. Later, in other cases, we could expect a quick response from those responsible, but given that the Dúrov brothers have not yet responded to the National Court, it is not so clear that they are going to do so now. Let’s hope so, but we can’t put our hand in the fire.

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