Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has criticised the Indian government's temporary restrictions on the social messaging platform in the wake of exam-related leaks, saying that the ban hasn’t addressed the real problem.
“India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps,” Durov wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.