On Telegram, people can publicly express reasonable concerns about vaccines. Large Telegram channels are one of the few remaining places on the Internet where users can raise their voice against the restrictions of their rights, which they feel took place as a result of the anti-Covid measures taken in various countries.
What Telegram does not allow, however, is the distribution of calls for violence via public channels. Inciting violence has been prohibited by the
Terms of Service of Telegram since 2015, so we have to take action every time this line is crossed. Yesterday we had to
shut down an Italian channel "stopdittatura", which incited subscribers to harm medical doctors and other public officials related to vaccinations. Unfortunately, the channel admins failed to act even after our team warned them about the violation.
We also had to block a similar German public channel "menschenreise_diskussion", which, just like "stopdittatura", had over 40,000 subscribers and actively incited violence against doctors. Such channels violate Telegram's rules, the rules of Apple and Google and also local laws.
It's OK to fight for your rights.
It's not OK to harm other people.
