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Funny weird story over the weekend, Brazil's Supreme Court had ordered the shutdown of telegram for not adhering to judicial orders and gave

phone carriers and Apple and Google and everybody else five days to block the

telegram app but that's not the weird bit. The weird bit is

telegram CEO Pavel Dorov said telegram was unresponsive to Brazil's

Supreme Court because the court used the wrong email address to try to get in touch with them.

He apologized profusely and asked for a ruling delay, quoting the verge.

It seems that we had an issue with emails going between our telegram.org corporate address

and the Brazilian Supreme Court, Dorov said, going on to explain that his company asks the court

to send future takedown request, quote,

to a dedicated email address.

But the court didn't do that, apparently.

It kept using, quote, the old general purpose

email address, and Telegram somehow missed them. And now it's getting banned unless the. address and

it's getting banned unless the court takes pity.

The company says it's now found those emails implying that the old address did

at least work, which makes it even more bizarre that the emails somehow got missed, and

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