JAKARTA: Indonesia has blocked web-based access to a popular messaging service and threatened a full ban on the app due to its “terrorism” content, the government said. The communications ministry said in a statement that “so many channels in the (Telegram) service contain radicalism and terrorism… encouragement and tips to assemble bombs or launch attacks” that it needed to block it. The government has so far bocked only access to the app via computer, but is preparing to impose a full ban. Telegram is a free Russian-designed messaging app that lets people exchange messages, photos and videos in groups of up to 5,000. Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, said the firm will investigate the Indonesia charges.

Source: Manila Times July 15, 2017 10:41 UTC