[roveo]

Telegram wasn't fully blocked in Russia even for a single day. They tried to block it and failed miserably. The team actively circumvented the blocking by deploying to new IPs faster than they were blocked, and in addition to that every IT guy in Russia had a tgproxy instance running for family and friends.

After a while they just stopped trying and decided that it's less reputational damage to just let it be.

[Glacia]

>After a while they just stopped trying and decided that it's less reputational damage to just let it be.

That's not true. It's legally unblocked. the reason why it was unblocked was never published. "It was unblocked because they gave up" is just your interpretation of the events. Pretty naive one, in my opinion.