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The result when countries think banning a tool is the solution (discuss.online)
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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

This happens around Africa once in a while. Kenya, Ghana, and a couple other counties will have a panic and just ban SMS messages, or internet, or Facebook nationally for a day because of one paranoid minister of education. Kenya did the same thing with Telegram not long ago.

Though... Who uses Telegram that isn't an idiot kid or Russian scammer?