The war of Russia and Telegram, comes from afar. A few weeks ago, the Russian government ordered the management of the messaging application to give them the encryption keys for Telegram. This, as you can guess, violates the privacy of the millions of users who use it, something that should not matter much to Russia, since it has taken quite harsh actions that have led to the blocking of Telegram in that country.
Faced with this movement of the Russian government, Telegram was hosted on the servers of Amazon and Google, something that has not stopped Russia. Although it may seem hard to believe, Russia has blocked more than 5 million IPs (a number that could continue to grow) in an inordinate attempt to block telegram completely. This, as you can guess, has not gone unnoticed and there are services that have been affected. And many correspond to video games.
There are millions of users affected by these Rusia policies to block Telegram and the games and services whose servers are having problems, if we attend the MMORPG portal, are the following:
- Vainglory
- Guns of Boom
- Garden Warfare 2
- Star Citizen
- Splatoon 2
- Life is feudal
- Total War: ARENA
- PUBG
- Battlefield
- Gaijin Games
- Fortnite
- PlayStation Network
- Guild Wars
This, of course, has had implications for esports. As we can read in Dotesports, there are several million players who cannot enjoy Vainglory, one of the strong titles in electronic sports and, as the player has pointed out Jason '' Sausage '' Patsatsiy, is a blow to the competitive scene of Vainglory in Russia.
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And it is that, now they are forced to play through VPN, which increases lag against other regions and, as the player himself indicates, "it is very difficult to stay on top with this problem." We will see what happens in the coming weeks, if they continue to block IPs, something that could happen, or if Russia stops killing flies with cannon shots.
