If you use the popular messaging app owned by Pavel Durov, prepare for a change that will come into force in the next few hours: National Court judge Santiago Pedraz requested Precautionary blocking of Telegram to major teleoperators.

The reason for Telegram’s precautionary blocking is ‘sharing content without permission‘ via messaging app. Although Telegram is still operational at the moment, the blocking can be expected to occur within two days at most after the court decision.

However, the blocking of Telegram coming into force in Spain will leave 8 million people using the application in the state without service. This does not mean that it is impossible to use Telegram in practice: Among other alternative applications, there is also an option to configure its proxy within the application itself.

Telegram is blocked in Spain

The case against Telegram that reached the National Court was supported by Mediaset, Antena 3, Movistar or EGEDA and, as we have previously explained entranceIt is about ‘uploading content without permission’. It’s not the first time Telegram has been involved in legal conflicts An example is the closure of the TDTChannels channel on Telegram at the request of LaLiga due to alleged copyright violations.

According to Telecinco, Santiago Pedraz decided to impose this precautionary block after not receiving a response from Telegram to his request for information about the case. Therefore, according to sources consulted by Xataka, the National Court sent the notification to the ISPs tasked with implementing it in less than three hours. According to legal sources of Eldiario.es, the blockade will be effective’within the next few hours and within two days at the latest‘. In practice, although some events were recorded in DownDetector in the last hours of Friday, the system is still operational, so everything indicates that this message has not reached them yet.

How long will the Telegram blockage last? There is no set time frame, but Telecinco says Pedraz simply ‘needs more time’ to investigate.

Telegram has a function that allows you to continue using it in Spain

Sooner or later the Telegram block in Spain will come into force, meaning you won’t be able to chat via the messaging app. While it is true that you can search the Google app store or other repositories to find and install alternative and unofficial Telegram apps like AKA (available for free on the Google Play Store), there is an even better option: Use Telegram Proxies.

What is a proxy? In a short and simplified way and when applied to Telegram, it acts as an intermediate point between you and the Telegram server itself and thus avoids obstacles to the use of the application precisely to prevent censorship and blocking, similar to WhatsApp of the same name. function.

To do this on your Android mobile phone, simply enter the Telegram application. ‘Settings’ > ‘Data & storage’search for the episode ‘Proxy’ and access ‘Proxy Settings’ to activate. Additionally, you will need to enter ‘Add Proxy’ To paste or type the address of the proxy to use.

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