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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Telegram’s Pavel Durov says NTA restrictions punish 150 million India users and ‘haven't stopped anything’

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.

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