rashtrakoff

Spiritually, a sunfish. Prev Solidity smart contracts dev @chamberfi, @0xflatmoney and currently funemployed.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

When you don't know what you're talking about but still like to sound smart both-siding, this happens👇

[rashtrakoff @rashtrakoff]

@D2_Finance Thanks! As I understand after reading the docs it looks like the withdrawal liquidity (or rather epoch unwind) is dependent on the team/role assigned by the multisig.

[The Doctor @Doctorthe113]

@zeddotdev Your editor is so bad that everytime I open it, I like the UI and then as soon as I start doing actual work, I want to shoot myself in the head because of how useless it is. I keep going back to slow as fuck vscode

[Global Index @TheGlobal_Index]

Map of all countries that ban Telegram due to exam paper leaks:

India 🇮🇳

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

my mentions right now:

[Aditi Agrawal @Aditi_muses]

Turns out that tweet about ProtonVPN registrations skyrocketing in India after the Telegram blocking order has been withheld in India. 🤦🏻‍♀️

GoI often hunts for an axe to step on it.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Government can only bully Telegram but can't do jackshit against these powerful Lala monopolists

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess water.

Your government is also considering banning solid food, as it presents a needless choking hazard.
You are not an adult.
You are a baby.
Eat the baby food.

[harshbajpai @bajpaiharsh244]

bob: yo, there was a big robbery yesterday.

indian government: how did they come?

bob: in a car?

indian government: okay, we have now banned cars for everyone! this will never happen again :)

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

Sher ko Red Carpet ki aisi bhayankar latt lagi hui hai ki instructor ke yoga mat par jutte lekar chadh gaya 😭

[Chiraag @0xChiraag]

Till yesterday, only 1 country knows our govt can't be able to conduct an exam, now 255 more knows. Big W

[Shivani @meme_ki_diwani]

😭😭

[Harsh @harsh1ii]

Telegram ki jagah Teleprompter band kardo 10 din ke liye, ek chaiwaale ki zindagi kharab hojaayegi

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Gagandeep Singh Sapra @TheBigGeek]

Five days ago:

“A unique UG program at IIT Kanpur! Meant especially for young ethical hackers… We aim to produce cyber warriors of the future.”

Today:

“Ban Telegram because it allows message editing.”

That’s a remarkably fast journey from “let’s train people to understand technology” to “let’s ban technology because it can be misused.”

The same mindset that produces great security professionals is the one that understands tools are neutral. The solution to misuse is enforcement against bad actors, not banning every platform that has powerful features.

Prayers be to the lord, who created us all

[ReserveBankOfIndia @RBI]

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#RBI #EngagementOfYoungProfessionals

[Prateek Waghre @prateekwaghre]

Paper leaks are a tough cookie to crack but you don’t burn down the bakery to smoke out 2 rats.

Also re; “Press release focusses on how this blocking is a proportionate, narrow, and time-bound response to address public order concerns.” — they’ve selectively learned from civil society criticism over the years and turn it against us when it suits them.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

@NTA_Exams Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud - IFF

https://t.co/5yzDg1eFxt

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.