Experts: from unlocking Telegram in Russia will benefit both the authorities and the service itself

Unlock Telegram in Russia will enable the service not only re-enter in the legal field, but also to build a more productive dialogue with the authorities that will be beneficial to both. Such opinion in conversation with TASS was expressed by the experts.

On the one hand, from unlocking, obviously, wins the Telegram itself — not least due to the fact that it is now in service will be back those who had to abandon it due to the restrictive measures of Roskomnadzor, suggested by the Director of the Institute for the development of the Internet Anton Klyuchkin. “I do not exclude that the company and the media and bloggers will join the list of new users to Telegram, as it provides opportunities for projects. On the other hand, I don’t think their number is very great, because the audience has already formed. But, in any case, it will be seen only after 2-3 months”, — he said.

The state, for its part, may have already been unprofitable to leave the Telegram outside the legal framework and Economics of the advertising industry, given the growing popularity of him as a platform to earn money and not have legal opportunities to influence the content and effectively communicate with the audience, said Klucken.

According to the Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinicheva, if earlier some users could “hide behind the Telegram, feeling complete unavailability to state,” now the situation may change. “As for the impetus for the media or bloggers, I see, rather, the risks to them. This allows the state to start interaction with the service, and consequently, to control is not over him, and over its users, identifying them and engaging with them in direct relationships. But it all depends on many factors, including from what exactly and in what limits, agreements were reached with Pavel Durov that we at the moment do not know”, — explained the expert.

As for the reasons in 2018, the Russian authorities start lock Telegram, namely the failure to provide service encryption keys, but now these approaches to the regulation of Internet services may no longer be relevant, which to some extent explains the removal of restrictions, says Director General of ANO “Prorabotav” Nikita Kulikov. The relevance of the requirements to provide the encryption keys, he explains, will be lost if the Telegram will configure the architecture of the service based on the blockchain.

“The court decision was made when technology was somewhat different, and for two years they managed to achieve such a technological development that these approaches were not relevant. This is the right decision — instead of having to maintain an impossible norm, and it’s really impossible, I decided to completely eliminate it”, — concluded the expert.