Facua sees the judicial determination to shut Telegram as “absolutely disproportionate” and warns of the “enormous damages” | EUROtoday

Consumers in Action warns of “the enormous damages” that the judicial determination to briefly block the Telegram messaging software will trigger for “the millions of users and for the companies, organizations and public and private institutions that legally disseminate content through their channels on this platform”.

This warning comes after this Friday the decide of the National Court Santiago Pedraz Telegram was ordered to be provisionally suspended following a criticism filed by Mediaset, Atresmedia and Movistar Plus for alleged unauthorized use of audiovisual content material topic to copyright.

For this motive, Facua-Consumers in Action considers “absolutely disproportionate” the choice of the National Court decide to order the precautionary blocking of Telegram in Spain. “It's like they closed the internet because there are websites that illegally host contents protected by copyright, as if they cut the entire television signal because there are pirate chains“, the final secretary of Facua criticized in an announcement, Rubn Sanchez.

As Facua recollects, the top of the Central Court of Instruction quantity 5 has adopted this determination after these accountable for Telegram they might not reply to their requests.

In addition, he emphasizes that the blockade is foreseeable in “the next few hours or days” since “the telecommunications companies They are obliged to assume the order of the magistrate”.