直播答题成撒币大战，一夜撒100多万 | 社媒大事记（01.01-01.08）

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直播答题成撒币大战，一夜撒100多万

时间：1.03

来源：网易、虎嗅、新浪、搜狐等

在直播、短视频等移动视频形态归于平静之后，以知识问答为主的直播答题几乎是突然之间就引爆了全网，从朋友圈刷屏到服务器宕机，可谓火热的一塌糊涂。而大火的背后，与奖金池的膨胀不无关系，王思聪傲娇地将“冲顶大会”的奖金提升到十万，今日头条旗下西瓜视频的“百万英雄”、映客旗下的“芝士超人”以及花椒直播旗下的“百万作战”则纷纷跟进狂撒百万现金收割用户，吃瓜群众们按捺不住纷纷加入“书中自有黄金屋”的战局。

1月3日，王思聪在微博上宣布每天都发奖金，10万元给一款名叫《冲顶大会》的手机答题赢钱游戏当作奖金。《冲顶大会》的主要模式是：每天在指定时间进行答题直播，一共12道题，每道限时10秒钟，全部答对者可平分每期奖金。

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这场10万元的撒币活动，让此前悄没声的冲顶大会APP迅速蹿红，而几大直播巨头也纷纷开动马力。其中，《冲顶大会》和《芝士超人》均是在2017年年底上线，《百万英雄》是在1月3日上线，花椒直播的《百万作战》1月5日开启。

其中上周五爆发了第一轮激战：西瓜视频在晚上11点半将奖金提升到100万元；同一时间，映客旗下的芝士超人把奖金拉高到101万元；而更壕的花椒直播，1月6日疯狂撒币132万，其中压轴场晚上11点25分将《百万作战》的奖金定为102万元，成为迄今直播答题单场之最。周鸿祎则亲自为其推广助威，在朋友圈广发英雄帖。

目前这几大平台套路基本差不多，都一个主持人出题，一堆人在线答题，一共12道选择题，全答对的人平分奖金。

据了解，这种模式基本上照搬了美国的HQ Trivia，它于2017年8月正式上线iOS版，当年12月的第二个周日，HQ Trivia把奖金提高到10000美元，当天晚上的同时在线人数突破40万。

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巨额奖金是吸引用户的第一利器。其中花椒百万场人气极高，一度400万人同时在线答题，该平台邀请主持人江苏卫视主持人李好担任出题官。

国内事记

一、人人网遭监管约谈 区块链项目已确定翻车

时间：1.07

来源：网易、新浪、凤凰、虎嗅、DoNews等

人人公司发布RRCoin白皮书，宣布将为社交网络提供一个开源的区块链平台人人坊以及代币RRCoin。人人网因区块链概念股价两日暴涨76%。1月8日，据媒体报道称监管部门已经约谈了人人网，RRcoin项目已经确定翻车，目前私募正在通知退币。

据日前发布的RRCoin白皮书显示，人人坊项目将在2018年1月完成底层架构设计和开发，2019年一季度完成商业系统和大量应用系统接入。 RR Coin共有10亿枚，其中40%将用于私募，25%用于RR Coin基金（该基金负责技术开发及平台运营），15%的代币给予市场运营和研发团队，还有20%的代币用于社区商务合作。

据资料显示，人人目前的转型方向，主要在互联网金融和人工智能。该公司架构目前主要有两部分：相对传统的"人人"部分，包括人人网、人人直播、真众互动等；互联网金融部门，包括人人理财、人人金控等。

二、支付宝年度账单刷屏，默选同意《芝麻服务协议》引争议

时间：1.04

来源：中国新闻网、新华网、央视网等

支付宝年度账单刷屏热潮未退之际，3日一则“紧急！查看支付宝年度账单前，请先看看这个”文章称，不少消费者都在朋友圈晒自己的支付宝账单和年度关键词，很多人可能没有发现你可能不知不觉又签了一个“服务协议”。

该消息源于岳成律师事务所合伙人岳屾山发布的一则微博。他发现支付宝个人年度账单首页有一行特别小的字：“我同意《芝麻服务协议》”，且已帮你选择好了“同意”。

岳屾山介绍，这个账单的查看和《芝麻服务协议》没有关联性，所以你选择取消同意，依然能够看到年度账单。但如果你没注意到，就会直接同意这个协议，允许支付宝收集你的信息包括在第三方保存的信息。而根据《消费者权益保护法》，消费者有选择权，而不是商家替消费者选择。根据《互联网交易管理办法》的规定，经营者应当采用显著的方式提请消费者注意与消费者有重大利害关系的条款。

回应：错了，用户信息做到不过度采集

蚂蚁金服3日晚间发给记者的声明称，这件事，肯定是错了。事件给大家带来的恐慌和误解，向大家表示深深的歉意。

声明表示，本来是希望充分尊重用户的知情权，让用户知道，只有在自己同意的情况下，支付宝年度账单才可以展示他的信用免押内容，初衷没错但用错了方式，愚蠢至极。

对于很多用户担心自己的信息安全和隐私问题，蚂蚁金服强调，这些问题同样是芝麻信用的生命线。用户信息的获取、沉淀、使用和分享，都会在严格遵守相关法律法规的前提下，做到用户知情和同意，做到不过度采集，更绝不会滥用数据。

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三、数百款Android应用借麦克风窃听，了解用户看啥电视

时间：1.03

来源：纽约时报

《纽约时报》刊文称，数百款Android应用，秘密利用手机麦克风“窃听”用户观看电视节目的习惯。Google Play Store应用商店中的逾250款游戏——部分游戏面向儿童，被发现利用软件记录用户观看的电视广告和电视节目。

即使在应用不运行时，它们也会收集信息。收集的信息被出售给广告客户，用于提高广告投放的精准性和分析广告效果。由旧金山一家名为Alphonso的公司开发的这款软件，通过智能手机麦克风“听”电视广告和电视节目的音频信号。只要应用在后台运行，即使手机装在口袋中，软件也会收集音频信号。

Alphonso CEO科迪亚说，“消费者是在知情的情况下允许我们收集信息的，而且随时可以选择退出。”他表示，Alphonso在其网站上提供了退出软件的方法，信息披露符合美国联邦通信委员会的相关政策。

四、今日头条招聘 2000 名内容审核编辑：党员优先

时间：1.03

来源：澎湃新闻等

遭遇整顿后，今日头条开始大规模招聘内容审核编辑岗位，加强内容审核。近日，在某招聘网站上，今日头条在天津招募内容审核编辑，每个员工每天需要审核 1000 条左右内容，负责监控审核今日头条平台内容是否违规，薪资约为 4000 至 6000 元 / 月。

该职位要求热爱新闻，关心时事，具有良好的政治敏感度和鉴别力，要求本科及以上学历，党员优先。

此外，今日头条还在北京招聘国际化内容审核编辑，负责审核日语视频，是否存在暴力、色情、恐怖等不和谐内容，要求本科及以上学历，薪资约为 6000 至 12000 元 / 月。

澎湃新闻获悉，今日头条此次招聘内容审核编辑，负责海内外产品的内容审核人员，总的新增规模在 2000 人左右。目前，今日头条内容审核编辑团队人数已经超过 4000 人（含海外产品），建立了一支国内最大的审核编辑团队。今日头条副总编辑徐一龙称，这个数据还会继续增加，预计很快突破 10000 人。

五、日活30万、收入峰值40万！《恋与制作人》燃爆的实质：女性向市场的崛起

时间：1.05

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近来游戏圈内一直充斥着一种玛丽苏风格的海报。自恋爱游戏《恋与制作人》自上线以来，可以说是瞬间俘获了大量女性玩家们的芳心，《恋与制作人》不仅在app store上的最佳成绩冲到了排名榜第二，更是在推出后不久就上了TapTap的推荐大图。作为一款新上线的女性游戏，叠纸游戏自身恐怕也没想到会火爆到月流水数千万的程度。

本质上，《恋与制作人》只是一款声优+剧情的游戏。游戏本身剧情就如同看小说一般，让玩家在游戏中如同身临其境与游戏人物恋爱。

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2016年，MMO类型手游势头正猛，MMO的题材、玩法和美术确实也越来越同质化。而在眼花缭乱的手游市场中，从 RPG到MMO到MOBA循环往复，就连阴阳师IP往MOBA类型发展，推出了《决战！平安京》，再到今年被“吃鸡”热度席卷的FPS类型市场，游戏类型化早已成为一种大方向。

对于专注女性游戏的玩家而言，他们的需求或许早已脱离游戏的“玩法”本身，而是对于游戏本质元素的需求， 有痴迷于《恋与制作人》的网友表示：“如果《阴阳师》出一款能够跟大天狗谈恋爱的手游，那自己一定坚定不移的转移战地。 ”

感性影响游戏的女性市场，有着鲜明的特点——

受IP的影响很大， 比如说网文、影视剧。最早的时候一些网络小说，女性可能是处于弱势的姿态，但是后来的一些作品，女性地位已经和男生旗鼓相当了，再往后还有一种趋势，就是女性的地位高于男性，而在这个世界中可能会产生一些比较有意思的冲突，女生就会有比较大的爱好。而将女性的阅读习惯带到游戏之中，会产生不一般的效果。

感官影响付费， 男性玩家会付费节点在于能否增强实力。而女性玩家的付费节点在于能否得到精神上的满足，女生是对视觉美感的。美术的画风，可爱，或者是古风，是很容易引起女生对游戏的关注，往往一些好看的服装或者皮肤对女性玩家的付费拉动很高。《恋与制作人》之中，不少女性为了心中的“野男人”不惜重金求男。

可以说，IP以及感官体验是影响女性游戏的两大重点。当初的《奇迹暖暖》也是抓住这两点才打造出一个日活跃用户超300 万，全系列产品下载用户数超3000 万，全国No.1 的换装类手游。

六、单车大变局：合并加速，阿里滴滴争夺ofo控制权

时间：1.02

来源：虎嗅等

1月2日，滴滴被被曝出收购小蓝单车，且正在内部孵化共享单车业务。这意味着滴滴与ofo的关系继续恶化。合并已经被看作是ofo与摩拜最顺理成章的未来，但一位接近ofo高层的人士称：“阿里这一轮进入，极有可能将威胁滴滴在ofo董事会的地位”，但是戴威仍然不想丢掉控制权，这依旧是阿里与戴威的争论焦点。

过去三个月，围绕滴滴ofo是否合并等关键问题，他与ofo管理层及多名投资人进行了数轮正式或非正式沟通，但缓慢的进展，让他陷入空前的焦灼。

这一切源于戴威对ofo控制权异乎寻常的坚持。一位ofo内部人士告诉腾讯《深网》，戴威与另外四名联合创始人所构成的ofo创始团队非常团结，“他们几乎保持着创业之初的节奏，没有架空的情况，这也意味着，这家公司被资本介入的程度，要比想象中小”。

这与竞争对手摩拜的情况截然不同。熟悉摩拜管理层的知情人士透露，摩拜创始人胡玮炜对公司重要决策干预很少，另外两位重要人物李斌与王晓峰，分别是投资人与职业经理人角色------资本意志在摩拜内部占据着绝对地位。

两种不同的文化，让“合并”这一单车领域看似最为顺理成章的未来，在两家企业遭遇了完全不同的阻力。腾讯《深网》从多个信源了解到，目前合并整合已成为摩拜、ofo背后众多投资人的共识，只是在控制权上，各方争执不休；但作为ofo创始人，戴威的想法直到现在，仍是谋求独立发展。

七、罗振宇《时间的朋友》2017跨年演讲收官 六大脑洞

时间：1.01

来源：网易、搜狐、腾讯、环球网等

2017年12月31日晚8:30到1月1日凌晨00:30——这跨越“旧”与“新”的这四个小时，对很多人来说都颇不平静。就在这个跨年时刻，罗振宇与来自全球各地的数万人，齐聚上海梅奔中心，完成了彼此20年约定的第三次“知识跨年”。

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2017“时间的朋友”跨年演讲的主题为“中国式机会”。罗振宇把镜头对准了中国，通过分析中国用户的迭代、市场环境的变化以及根植中国本土并发展壮大的代表性企业，用“动车组脑洞”、“热带雨林脑洞”、“比特化脑洞”、“拔河脑洞”、“终点站脑洞”、“枢纽脑洞”这六大脑洞，对主题进行了详细阐述。

除了洞察中国式机会，在演讲现场，罗振宇还宣布「得到」App将正式发售由外交学院世界政治研究中心主任、青年学者施展主笔的新作《枢纽：3000年的中国》。在本书中，施展调用了地理、历史、哲学等跨学科的知识对历史的成败兴衰给了一个统一的解释框架。罗振宇在现场称，让我们的用户提前看到有价值的东西，这一回我们又做到了。

动车组脑洞——中国将进入平凡创新时代。过去，我们的发展就像绿皮火车那样，靠单一的火车头拉动所有车厢。但现在，“绿皮火车”转变成了“动车”，每节车厢都有自驱力，又为整体提供驱动力。普通人在传统行业中积累的经验和优势与技术和互联网结合而被放大。而二三线城市也成为热门品牌的实验室和孵化地，诞生了很多媲美一线城市的消费品牌，比如三只松鼠、江小白等。尽管大者恒大，但在“火车头”之后，仍然有大量的机会。

热带雨林脑洞——中国的商业环境如同亚马逊热带雨林，一个庞大的生态系统，能包容足够的内部多样性，大的生态系统就有足够多的机会，新业态、新思维、新物种不断涌现。新机会也同时让新玩法替代了旧的玩法。比如成为新一波价值的连接器，代表案例是共享单车;比如由“流量思维”转向“超级用户思维”，区别对待那些能创造价值和收益的用户，关心他们，和他们在一起。

比特化脑洞——这个世界正在被迅速比特化、数字化，互联网摧枯拉朽的冲击让各个传统行业不禁担心会被互联网颠覆。跟不上快速变化，是不是就会被淘汰？答案是，只要以更高的效率做最好的自己，就不必担心会被淘汰。在快速变化的时代，我们仍然要坚守那些不变的东西。无论产业怎样因互联网而变化，提高效率和专业化分工这两个维度是不变的。

拔河脑洞——在由供应链构成的世界里，所有经济体都融合为一体，你中有我，我中有你。但谁有强大的人口、市场和产业规模，谁就会在拔河游戏里占有优势。这里面的博弈不再是像拳击比赛那样你死我活，而是绳子往哪儿移一点，主动权就多一点。当下的中国无论是在人口、市场和产业上都有优势，在拔河的新时代，中国会遇到增长的天花板吗？显然不会。

终点站脑洞——作为世界工厂的中国，它不是全球制造业转移的其中一站，而是最后一站。中国兼具弹性和效率的供应链网络，能帮助任何高科技产品大规模量产：比如全世界每5部智能手机就有1部产自东莞。一部手机，有一千多个零部件，60%的供应商都聚集在深圳、东莞两地。投资人王煜全认为，未来的全球分工会是美国科技、中国制造、全球市场。有强大的制造业支撑，中国在全球有着不可忽视的地位。

枢纽脑洞——中国已经成为了全球经贸有效运转的必经节点，在全球范围内扮演着“枢纽”角色：向原材料产地国家输出资本、制成品、基础设施和就业机会，向西方发达国家提供形形色色的工业品和创新落地的机会。由此，中国链接起西方世界和欠发达国家的枢纽，参与着塑造全球新秩序。在跨年演讲上，「得到」App正式发售了施展新作《枢纽》一书。在书中，施展一一论述了中国到底是什么，中国的前途在哪里，中国在世界上真实的角色和机会在哪里。而这些论述，成为了罗振宇这一年里获得的最大思想冲击。

八、女生举报北航教师性骚扰

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来源：腾讯等

新年第一天，女博士罗茜茜在12年之后，实名举报北京航空航天大学教授陈小武性骚扰女学生。当天，陈小武在接受媒体采访时回应称，其没做过违法乱纪的事情。当天，北航通过官方微博回应，已介入调查，涉事教授陈小武已停职。截至目前，北航尚未公布具体调查结果。

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据举报人罗茜茜称，在她读博期间（2004年底到2005年初），副导师陈小武对她进行过性骚扰。陈小武将罗茜茜带回家，说其与妻子关系不好，随后企图对罗茜茜进行性骚扰。其间，罗茜茜一直哭求陈小武，最后陈小武将罗茜茜送回了家。

罗茜茜还称，自己已经收集到其他曾被陈小武骚扰过的女生的证据，受害人至少有5名，其中有人程度还很严重。

1月1日下午，北京航空航天大学回应称，学校已成立了工作组对此事进行调查核实，并暂停了陈小武的工作。而陈小武在接受《北京青年报》采访时说，自己“没有做过违法乱纪的事”，具体以学校调查结果为准。

国外事记

1. Twitter Just Explained Why It Doesn't Block World Leaders Like Trump

时间：1.06

来源：BuzzFeed

Amid increasingly vocal calls for the company to ban President Donald Trump from its service, Twitter defended its policies against censoring world leaders on its platform.

"Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate," the company wrote in a blog post. "It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions."

The post didn't call out Trump or the increasingly vocal protests by name.

Twitter also did not say definitively that it would never ban Trump, or any other world leader. "We review Tweets by leaders within the political context that defines them, and enforce our rules accordingly," its post said. The post, headlined "World Leaders on Twitter," also did not define what a world leader is.

In recent months, people have been protesting outside Twitter's headquarters and demanding that the company ban Trump. On Wednesday, protesters projected angry messages on Twitter's headquarters after Trump taunted North Korea leader Kim Jong Un about the size, power, and operational status of his "Nuclear Button."

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This wasn't Trump's first provocative tweet aimed at North Korea. In September, Trump seemed to threaten the annihilation of the country, tweeting: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!" North Korea said the tweet was a declaration of war.

2. Uber Is A Taxi Service, Not A Tech Company, The European Union's Top Court Has Ruled

时间：1.02

来源：BuzzFeed

A long-awaited ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has stated that Uber is a taxi service, not a tech company, and therefore must to adhere to national transport regulations in individual European companies.

The ruling, announced on Wednesday morning, represents a significant blow to Uber. The ride-hail company had hoped to be recognized as a digital platform, which would have meant it was only subject to Europe-wide rules.

"The electronic platform Uber provides, by means of a smartphone application, a paid service consisting of connecting non-professional drivers using their own vehicle with persons who wish to make urban journeys," the ECJ's ruling read.

It concluded that it therefore "must be regarded as being inherently linked to a

transport service and, accordingly, must be classified as ‘a service in the field of transport’ within the meaning of EU law".

"Consequently," it said, "such a service must be excluded from the scope of the freedom to provide services in general as well as the directive on services in the internal market and the directive on electronic commerce."

The case was first raised by taxi drivers in Barcelona in 2014, who complained that Uber infringed Spanish competition rules and claimed it did not have authorization to operate as a taxi service.

Uber has argued throughout the case that it should be considered a tech company, but downplayed the impact of the decision in a press statement immediately after the final verdict.

The announcement represents a significant victory for Spanish taxi drivers after years of campaigning against the company.

On Monday, Facebook group Taxistas de Barcelona posted a series of Tweets showing customers complaining about Uber, saying the sector needs to "bust those who are disloyal" and "get people to want to come with us!"

On Twitter, taxi campaign groups from Barcelona also celebrated the news. Elite Taxi BCN, which campaigns for the rights of drivers in the city, tweeted: “Today is a great day, we trust in the justice system to declare Uber a transport company”.

Despite Uber's apparent resolve, Wednesday's ruling represents a bombshell for its policy team, which has been facing growing resistance from municipal authorities across Europe.

The campaign by taxi drivers in Barcelona echoes a resistance from local governments in the UK, where last week York became the third city to effectively ban Uber by voting against renewing its license.

The UK's Trades Union Congress, which has slammed the company for not giving its drivers a minimum wage or holiday pay, welcomed the verdict.

“Uber must get its house in order and play by the same rules as everybody else," said General Secretary Frances O’Grady.

“Advances in technology should be used to make work better. Not to return to the type of working practices we thought we’d seen the back of decades ago.”

3. Why Mark Zuckerberg should be interested in cryptocurrency

时间：1.05

来源：Mashable

Facebook may soon begin exploring uses for cryptocurrency technology.

The company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his annual personal memo on Thursday — mostly about being a better CEO — but one throwaway reference to cryptocurrency technology captured much of the media's attention.

Writing about how the last year saw many people lose trust in social media and tech companies, Zuckerberg noted the growing importance of de-centralizing forces, like the rise of cryptocurrency.

He wrote:

"There are important counter-trends to this — like encryption and cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands. But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services."

Some people who read the memo were quick to jump to the conclusion that Zuckerberg was referring to Bitcoin. That inspired breathless headlines (many of which have since been changed) speculating about Zuckerberg's desire to integrate Bitcoin into Facebook.

As The Next Web pointed out, it's misleading to use Bitcoin as a shorthand for cryptocurrency. There are many types of cryptocurrency technology, and Bitcoin is just one of them.

That said, it's telling that Zuckerberg specifically called out cryptocurrency in his annual new year's resolution post. When you look at the broader landscape of social media companies and messaging platforms, it makes perfect sense that Facebook would be paying very close attention to such technology.

First, consider that nearly 100 percent of Facebook's revenue comes from online advertising, while other sources, like mobile gaming, have fallen in recent years. (And newer sources, like its virtual reality division Oculus, make up a tiny fraction of the company's total revenue.)

These figures shouldn't be all that surprising — the social network has long been one of the single most dominant players in digital advertising. Still, the company would be foolish not to pursue other meaningful revenue sources longterm.

Adopting some kind of cryptocurrency could be one way to do that. But rather than buying into one that's already established, like Bitcoin, what might be more likely is Facebook creating its own coin.

There's already precedence for such a move. Messaging app Kik, popular among teens, had its own initial coin offering (ICO) last year, raising nearly $100 million for Kin, its ethereum-based coin. Chinese social networks have also experimented with their own cryptocurrencies, despite the country's efforts to crack down on the practice. As CNBC points out, having its own coin could help Facebook eventually catch up to Asian competitors like WeChat.

And while it's far too soon to say how a Facebook token would work within the bigger social network, Messenger certainly seems like the first logical step. Using service like WeChat and Kik as blueprint, it's not difficult to imagine how Facebook could choose to offer its own in-app currency to users.

Coincidentally, Facebook Messenger chief David Marcus recently joined the board of digital currency exchange Coinbase.

Either way, with Zuckerberg promising to "study" the issue with the same intensity he's given his previous yearly challenges, it's more likely than not we'll hear from the CEO on cryptocurrencies again before the year is over.

4. Telegram and Instagram being restricted in Iran

时间：1.02

来源：TechCrunch

Iran state TV said yesterday that authorities were temporarily blocking the services to “maintain peace”, according to the AP news agency.

The country has seen a rising wave of anti-government protests in recent days and ministers have accused social media of fueling dissent.

On Saturday Iran’s ICT minister, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi tweeted directly at Telegram founder Pavel Durov — claiming that one of the platform’s channels “is encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprisings, and social unrest” and urging Durov to act to “stop such encouragements via Telegram”.

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In a post on his Telegram channel yesterday, Durov said the authorities had “imposed a block on Telegram”, adding that it is “not clear whether permanent or temporary”.

He also confirmed that Telegram admins had suspended the channel that Jahromi had been objecting to — naming it as @amadnews — but claimed this was as a result of the channel admins having broken Telegram’s terms of service rules by “calling its subscribers to use Molotov cocktails and firearms against police”.

Responding to Jahromi’s earlier tweet Durov also noted that: “Calls for violence are prohibited by the Telegram rules. If confirmed, we’ll have to block such a channel, regardless of its size and political affiliation.”

Following the suspension of @amadnews, Durov writes that the channel admins were able to “reassemble most of their subscribers (800,000) in a new peaceful channel, which we welcomed” — after apologizing for breaking Telegram’s ToS and pledging “not to promote violence in future”.

At the time of writing neither Instagram nor Telegram could be reached for comment.

Telegram has a large user base in Iran — with Durov stating last year that it has ~40M monthly active users, which amounts to around half the population of the country, and 25M daily active users.

With media censorship a fact of life in Iran, digital services and apps such as Telegram have offered citizens an alternative outlet for accessing information — including, when service blocks are imposed, the capacity for more tech savvy users to use other digital tools (such as proxy servers) to circumvent attempts to restrict access to uncensored content.

However the Iranian government has been pushing for control over foreign messaging platforms — including, in 2016, calling for companies to move their servers to Iran, sparking privacy fears.

Last year Durov was forced to deny that Telegram had moved some of its servers to the country — saying rather it had installed some local caching nodes to speed up download times.

The local CDNs could not in any way aid state censorship of the platform, he asserted.

Iran’s government has also been targeting Telegram channel administrators — issuing a requirement that admins of channels with more than 5,000 members register with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

Those not registering risk prosecution. While registered admins expose themselves to the risk of arrest — putting channels under greater pressure to self-censor.

The regime also appears to be cranking up the public pressure on Durov to police content it doesn’t like — such as the now suspended @amadnews channel — though the Telegram founder has been quick to point to counter-examples where the platform has resisted authorities’ demands.

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Whether Telegram can continue to walk this line and successfully avoid a permanent block in Iran remains to be seen. (The Indonesian government used blocks last summer to wring content-related concessions out of Telegram, focused on removing ISIS-related channels and improving its local moderation systems.)

Telegram’s actions here, in suspending a popular channel following a state request, have drawn accusations of collusion with the Iranian regime, even as the platform continues to anger the Iranian government by providing an ongoing outlet for uncensored political content.

So Durov looks to be facing the proverbial choice between a rock and a hard place — leaving his critics to decry his technical choices.

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