The Telegram messenger was filtered on May 1, last year, by order of the then investigator of the Second Branch of the Tehran Culture and Media Court. Since then, some users have migrated to some other messengers such as WhatsApp, but still many Telegram users remain in it and use this messenger using a filter breaker. It has been one or two days now that the news Telegram anti-filtering is circulating among social network users. The news is that in order to remove the Telegram filter, you must first update the original version of your Telegram, then connect to the Russian IPs using a filter breaker, work like this for 10 minutes and then Turn off your filter breaker and enjoy Telegram without filtering! Many users also reported that this way, they have managed to access Telegram without filtering.

What is the essence of the story?

But we got the gist from a senior network and infrastructure expert. He told Khorasan about this: it seems that this event is not very planned by Telegram; Because iprevious years, the same thing happened to YouTube and Facebook. He added: to filter, the protocol or IP must be filtered. In Iran, intelligent filtering method is used for filtering. He continued: In Iran, filtering is done based on DNS or the same domain name. The returned IP address is incorrect.

Not a weird thing
He said: "If you reach the correct IP address in a way, browsers will store this information for a long time and the site that was filtered will work for a long time." This has already happened to YouTube and Facebook sites that are filtered in Iran. The network and infrastructure expert continued: "Telegram is probably using new domains, and for this reason, this possibility has been provided for users and it is not a strange subject; But with the update of Iran's filtering system, this will not happen again. He said: "If access to Telegram without filter breaker was technically possible, Telegram company would have announced this issue."

Four days ago, we wrote to you in Taranjai about the elimination of the Telegram filter in Russia. Earlier, the Russian government, however, had its own way of bypassing its filtering in Russia. If you remember, 5 months ago we talked about circumventing Telegram filtering with Russian IP. Now it seems that with the removal of the Telegram filter in Russia, the Telegram anti-filter system will be activated for Iran and China. This is based on their telegram post.

Telegram anti-filter system for Iran
Subscribe to Taranjai Telegram channel for more news. In the telegram post we read that:

In April 2018, Russia's telecommunications regulator instagram services blocked or filtered Telegram in its territory. We knew this was going to happen soon, so as time went on, we updated Telegram apps with support for rotating rotary servers, traffic concealment, and other anti-censorship tools. We joined thousands of Russian engineers who set up their own proxies for Telegram users and formed a decentralized movement called the Digital Resistance.

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The first week of the ban was challenging, and many of our users in Russia had communication problems. In an effort to prevent users from accessing Telegram, Roskomnadzor blacklisted millions of IP addresses. However, thanks to digital resistance, Telegram became widely available in Russia after May 2018.

As a result, Telegram's user base in Russia has not diminished. In fact, it has doubled since 2018. As of May 2020, of the 400 million monthly active Telegram users, at least 30 million were from Russia. This means that our growth in Russia has been in line with our growth in other countries. Simply put, filtering does not work.

Last week, Roskomnadzor, which has had a new director for two months, decided to reflect the truth by announcing that Telegram was no longer blocked in Russia. In their announcement, they referred to my message on June 4, in which I explained why the ban did not make sense.

This change should be welcomed and I hope it will last. If not, hopefully a few users will notice the difference.

Over the past two years, we have had to regularly upgrade our "unblocking" technology to stay out of censorship. I'm proud of what I have achieved, this is unique among social media apps.

Telegram anti-filtering technology in Iran and China

We do not want this technology to rust and become obsolete. That is why we have decided to direct our anti-censorship resources to other places where Telegram is still banned by governments, such as Iran and China. We call on former proxy servers for Russian users to focus their efforts in these countries. They must also be prepared for new challenges: As the political situation in the world becomes more tiktok, more governments may try to block privacy-oriented programs such as the Telegram.

The digital resistance movement does not end with last week's ceasefire in Russia. It has just begun and is becoming global.