What is fban in telegram?
editBanned can be used to modify the rights of a user in a channel or supergroup, to ban/kick a user from the group, or restrict the user from doing certain things. I wouldn't say global ban! Telegram is one of the safest and most secure apps in the world and also it has so much capabilities and let the users. Unlike in a Telegram group, only the federation owner can assign new admins. In order to perform a federation ban (banning a spammer from all participating groups) via /fban you can do the following: A spammer joined a group OSM. - /ban
As a federation owner, you have several options available to you to manage your federation. This page of the guide will walk you through these options. All the options listed on this page are only available to federation owners.
One of the most important tasks you'll do as a federation owner is manage your admins. Unlike in a Telegram group, only the federation owner can assign new admins, which means anyone you assign as an admin will not be able to add new admins on your behalf.
To add an admin to your federation, you can issue the below command:
/fedpromote <@username or UserID>
You can also reply to any of the user's messages and issue the command without arguments, like shown below:
/fedpromote
To remove an admin from your federation, issue the following command:
/feddemote <@username or UserID>
Like adding an admin, you can also reply to any of the admin's messages and issue the command without any arguments, like below:
/feddemote
Whenever a federation action occurs (such as a ban or unban), Rose can notify the federation owner via PM every time a federation action occurs. This allows you to keep track of what your fed admins are doing.
To enable federation notifications, issue either of the below commands:
If you do not want to disable federation notifications, issue either of the following commands:
This feature is similar to fedeation notificatons, except that you can use this feature to log your federation actions to one of your group chats or a channel, instead of via PM. This works similarly to the ADMIN LOGGING feature from the BASICS section, except that this log tracks federation admin actions only.
To enable federation logging, simply issue the below command in the group chat or channel where you want the logged actions to be sent:
/setfedlog
The group chat or channel will then be sent any actions performed in the federation.
If you no longer want to log your federation's actions, you can send a PM to Rose with the below command:
/unsetfedlog
Your federation's actions will no longer be logged to a group chat or channel.
Rose provides you with some options to view/export your federation's banlist to make a personal backup, as well as importing a banlist from another federation into yours.
If you wish to view a list of all of the banned users in your federation, you may issue the following command:
/fbanlist
Rose will then send a message containing a document named “fbanned_users.csv”. If you wish to output the document in a specific format, you can issue the command with the arguments below:
CSV and JSON file formats are exactly what their name implies. You can search Google for more information on CSV and JSON files, as they are well-known data standards.
If you want to import bans into your federation from a ban list file, will first need to send Rose a message with your ban list attached as either a .csv or .json file. You will then need to reply to the message with the following command:
/importfbans
Rose will then process the document, and if there are no errors, she will import the bans in your banlist file. Please be aware of the below formatting requirements for importing bans:
Click on the link(s) below to download an example of each file:
CSV Example JSON Example
Subscriptions allow your federation to “subscribe” to another fed's banlist. Let's look at a potential scenario:
To subscribe your federation to another federation, issue the below command:
/subfed
If you wanted to subscribe your fed to the “Rose Support Official” fed, you would issue the following command:
/subfed 86718661-6bfc-4bd0-9447-7c419eb08e69
There are times you may wish to longer enforce bans from a subscribed federation, or maybe you've reached the 5 federation limit for subscriptions and need to remove a subscribed fed in order to subscribe to a new one. To do this, issue the below command:
/unsubfed
If you wanted to unsubscribe your fed from the “Rose Support Official” fed, you would issue the following command:
/unsubfed 86718661-6bfc-4bd0-9447-7c419eb08e69
Telegram is among the most popular messaging platforms for many reasons. With Telegram, you can communicate with people if you have their usernames or have saved them as your contacts.
Telegram has different terms of service that every user must follow to continue using it. However, when you fail to stick to these terms, Telegram can ban your account. At times, the ban could be unjustified. So, how can you unban Telegram?
This post will mention why Telegram has banned your account. Also, we will discuss four ways you can unban your Telegram account and regain access to your chat, groups, and channels.
Telegram has increased the number of users due to its different features, especially security features. Most people choose Telegram as their messaging platform to enhance their online privacy. When using Telegram, various actions can make Telegram ban your account.
Telegram is a platform that accommodates users of different ages. When someone reports your Telegram account for sharing sexual and explicit content, Telegram will investigate the case and ban your account. Sharing of sexual content is prohibited on Telegram.
If you misuse Telegram’s privacy features to harass others, your risk getting your account banned. Harassment can be in different ways, including blackmail.
When you harass someone, they can report you on Telegram. If you are found guilty, you will be banned from using Telegram temporarily or permanently.
Anyone that gets reported or flagged by Telegram for using their account to promote illegal activities risks being permanently banned from Telegram. Prohibited activities include selling drugs and weapons or advocating for self-injury.
When using Telegram, you should respect everyone’s differences and opinions. However, your Telegram account will be banned if you choose to use Telegram to advocate for hate speech.
Is your Telegram account permanently or temporarily banned? Are you looking for an effective way to unban Telegram? Here are four methods that can work for your case.
When you are sure that your Telegram account is wrongfully banned, you can reach out to Telegram’s support team and have them review your account.
On your browser, open the Telegram Support Page and detail your problem. Add your email address and the phone number connected to your banned Telegram account, then press the “Submit” button.
Telegram would investigate your case and ask you if it was a mistake. However, if you have violated the terms of service, your account will remain banned.
If contacting Telegram via their support page doesn’t work, switch to using email instead. Open your email service and compose an email to . Ensure you add a descriptive email subject.
Also, explain your problem and include your details, such as the email and phone number you use on Telegram. Hopefully, Telegram will contact you for more information.
As a last resort, you can wait for the temporary ban imposed on your Telegram account to end. In most cases, Telegram will temporarily ban your account depending on the severity of the offense you’ve committed.
If you’ve been banned for a few hours or days, you can decide to wait for the ban to end instead of contacting Telegram’s support.
From 27 September 2020, following the start of the war in Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies imposed temporary restrictions on the use of social media in the country. Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zoom and Skype were completely blocked. Many other unrelated services were also blocked due to a lack of coordination. The restriction was lifted on 10 November 2020.
In June 2016, it was found that some ISPs in Bahrain had started to block Telegram.
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. On the evening of 11 August, while the Internet shutdown continued, 45 percent of people using Telegram protest chats in Belarus were online, despite the government's efforts to block online access. In October 2020, Apple asked Telegram to remove 3 channels that leaked the identities of the people involved in the Belarusian protests.
In February 2022, the Superior Electoral Court announces that 3 telegram channels, which are allegedly involved in fake news dissemination, had been regionally blocked by their request, under penalty of the Telegram being suspended for 48 hours. This decision includes one of the channels of the far-right journalist Allan dos Santos, who had already had his website (Terça Livre) and YouTube channel deleted by a Supreme Federal Court decision. On March 18, the Superior Electoral Court ordered the suspension of all access to the service, alleging that the platform had repeatedly ignored the court's decisions. Following the Superior Electoral Court's decision, Telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov claimed that the court was sending emails to an "old general-purpose email address" that Telegram hadn't been checking, and sought a reinvestigation of the decision. The ban was lifted two days later.
On 26 April 2023, Telegram was temporarily suspended throughout Brazil, and the company was fined R$1 million (2023) (US$185,528.76) daily for not complying with an investigation into neo-Nazi activities on the platform. The company only partially fulfilled a court request for personal data on two anti-Semitic Telegram groups, which authorities considered an intentional lack of cooperation. The decision was made after a series of violent school attacks, with at least one incident being linked to exchanges on an anti-Semitic group. A federal court lifted the suspension three days later, but upheld the daily fine.
In July 2015, it was reported that China blocked access to Telegram Messenger. According to state-owned People's Daily, Chinese human rights lawyers used Telegram to criticize the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party.
In July 2021, the Cuban government blocked access to several social media platforms, including Telegram, to curb the spread of information during the anti-government protests.
On February 11, 2022, the German government announced that 64 Telegram channels, which reportedly potentially violate German laws against hate speech, had been deleted by their request. This included the channel of Attila Hildmann, a self-described nationalist who shared antisemitic conspiracy theories via his channel. According to the press release, Telegram has agreed to cooperate with the German government and delete channels with potentially illegal content in the future.
During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, many participants used Telegram to evade electronic surveillance and coordinate their action against 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill. On the evening of 11 June 2019, the Hong Kong police arrested Ivan Ip, the administrator of a Telegram group with 20,000 members on suspicion of "conspiracy to commit public nuisance." He was forced by the police to hand over his Telegram history. The next day, Telegram suffered a "powerful" decentralized denial of service attack. Hackers tried to paralyze the target server by sending a large number of spam requests, most of which came from mainland China.
On 28 August 2019 the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association announced that the Hong Kong government had plans to block Telegram.
On 16 May 2022 Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung told a Legislative Council committee that the government remains concerned about doxxing and other violations of personal data privacy, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is looking at blocking Telegram to address the issue.
In 2019, it was reported that some internet service providers in India were blocking Telegram traffic, including its official website. Internet Freedom Foundation, an Indian digital liberties organisation filed an RTI on whether Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had banned Telegram or requested ISPs to block traffic. The response from DoT said that it had no information on why the ISPs were blocking Telegram. The High Court of Kerala asked about the central government's view on a plea for banning Telegram for allegedly disseminating child abuse videos and communicating through it.
On 14 July 2017, eleven domain name servers related to Telegram were banned by the Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry with the possibility of closing all Telegram applications in Indonesia if Telegram did not make a standard operating procedure to maintain content that was considered unlawful in the apps. In August 2017, Indonesian Government has opened full access of Telegram, after Telegram has made self censorship about negative contents mainly radicalism and terrorism. Telegram said that about 10 channels/groups have been deleted from Telegram everyday due to are categorized as negative contents.
Telegram was open and working in Iran without any VPN or other circumvention methods in May 2015. In August 2015, the Iranian Ministry of ICT asserted that Telegram had agreed to restrict some of its bots and sticker packs in Iran at the request of the Iranian government. According to an article published on Global Voices, these features were being used by Iranians to "share satirical comments about the Iranian government". The article also noted that "some users are concerned that Telegram's willingness to comply with Iranian government requests might mean future complicity with other Iranian government censorship, or even allow government access to Telegram's data on Iranian users". Telegram has stated that all Telegram chats are private territory and that they do not process any requests related to them. Only requests regarding public content (bots and sticker packs) will be processed. In May 2016, the Iranian government asked all messaging apps, including Telegram, to move all Iranian users' data to Iranian servers. On 20 April 2017, the Iranian government completely blocked Telegram's new voice calls, a service that allows individuals to make calls via secure, end-to-end encryption, and keep their conversations private.Mahmoud Vaezi Chief of Staff of the President of Iran said reason for blocking Telegram free voice calls is so Iranian corporations keep revenue from voice calls.
On 30 December 2017, during anti-government demonstrations across Iran, Telegram has shut down a channel of the Iranian opposition that published calls to use Molotov cocktails against the police, after receiving a complaint from the Iranian government. Pavel Durov explained that the reason for the blocking was a "no calls to violence" policy and confirmed that criticizing local authorities, challenging the status quo and engaging in political debate were seen as "OK" by the platform, while "promoting violence" was not. The opposition group promised to comply with Telegram rules and created a new channel which amassed 700,000 subscribers in less than 24 hours. On December, 31, the Iranian government announced that Telegram has been "temporarily restricted" in order to "ensure calm and security" after the company said it refused to shut down peaceful protesting channels. On January, 13, the app was unblocked by an order of the president Hassan Rouhani, who said that "more than 100,000 jobs had been lost" in Iran as a result of the ban on Telegram. Channels of the opposition remain operational.
In March 2018, Iran's chairman for the Committee for Foreign policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi announced that Telegram has been targeted to be fully blocked in Iran by 20 April 2018, citing Telegram's role in facilitating the winter protests and the need to promote local apps. President Rouhani agreed with the need to break Telegram's monopoly in Iran, but maintained that he was opposed to a new blockade and did not see it as an effective measure to promote local apps. Iranian MP Mahmoud Sadeghi noted that during the two weeks that Telegram was blocked in January 2018, 30 million Iranians (75% of Telegram's users in Iran) did not start using local messaging apps, but instead turned to VPN services to circumvent the block, rendering the blockade ineffective.
Telegram was blocked by the government on May 1, 2018.
For until one year from the end of the 2017 riots, the Iranian government made available a customized version of Telegram that was under their domain. In 2019 Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani in Tehran Friday prayer declared that Telegram is haram and requested National Information Network deployment like Great Firewall of China.
On 27 September 2019, Bijan Ghasemzadeh, the Iranian prosecutor who ordered the block on Telegram, was arrested for charges of corruption. It is unclear whether or not the charges were related to the ban on Telegram.
On 23 March 2023, Norway's parliament, the Storting, officially banned Telegram for MPs on work devices that have access to its systems.
In October 2017, Telegram was inaccessible to users in Pakistan, and as of 18 November 2017, it has been completely blocked on PTCL Network as per instructions from PTA, Pakistan's largest ISP, PTCL mentioned this in a tweet to a user.
On 16 May 2017, Russian media reported that Roskomnadzor was threatening to ban Telegram. On 13 April 2018, Telegram was banned in Russia by a Moscow court, due to its refusal to grant the Federal Security Service (FSB) access to encryption keys needed to view user communications as required by federal anti-terrorism law. Enforcement of the ban was attempted by blocking over 19 million IP addresses associated with the service. However they included those used by Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, due to Telegram's use of the providers to route messages. This led to unintended collateral damage due to usage of the platforms by other services in the country, including retail, Mastercard SecureCode, and Mail.ru's Tamtam messaging service. Users used VPNs to bypass the ban as a result. On 17 April 2018, Russian authorities asked Apple and Google to pull the service from their stores as well as APKMirror, however Apple and Google refused the request. On 28 March 2018, Roskomnadzor reportedly sent a legally binding letter to Apple asking it to remove the app from the Russian version of its App Store and block it from sending push notifications to local users who have already downloaded the app. On 27 December 2018, the largest search engine in Russia, Yandex, removed telegram.org from their search results. On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to "help with extremism investigations".
On 19 October 2020, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission was ordered to block Telegram due to its use in the 2020 Thai protests.
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In order to fight spam, we created a group of owners and admins to discuss moderating strategies and to manage the federation. A federation is an automatic bot controlled system to apply bans system wide in all participating groups: you can say all participating groups are sharing the same ban list making it possible to ban a spammer from all groups if they spam in one group.
You're member of a group having the OSM Federation Bot bot and being in our federation "osmallgroups".
You can use the following commands to gather information about the federation
You were banned from the federation and therefore you cannot join nor write in many OSM Telegram groups anymore? It should happen rarely but sometimes we ban the wrong person . With our group osmadmininquiries banned users get the chance to get unbanned. Just join it and tell that you were banned and you would like to know why. We will tell you and if it is was a huge misunderstanding between both sites we will unban you.
Are you a group owner, then start reading here: Adding your group to our federation system bans users automatically that were banned by federation admins or higher. You can become one of our team, becoming a super admin! So users banned through the command /fban will be also banned in all other groups which are connected to the federation automatically by a bot. You have still full control over your group and can disconnect ( /removegroup ) your group from the federation any time and then removing the bot.
You still have full control over your own group. If you no longer want your group to be in the federation you can issue the command /removegroup right from your group's chat. If you don't want OSM Federation Bot not anymore to be in your group then simply remove it.
If you are an admin of a group participating in the federation, then ping the group owner or valornaram on Telegram so they can add you as federation admin (you don't need to be a member of our group to become federation admin) allowing you to apply bans federation wide and in this way to exclude spammers from all participating groups. He will also show you how to execute your new rights and how to handle the bot.
Please just use your power to ban spammers and not "difficult" users e.g. because of another opinion, criticizing you or mapping strategies. Banning "difficult" users can harm the federation or your federation admin title.
After the group's owner has added and configured the bot, (local|federation) admins can issue the following commands to undertake specified actions inside the groups they're moderating:
In order to perform a federation ban (banning a spammer from all participating groups) via /fban you can do the following:
A spammer sent a message privately to you or to someone else:
The same applies also to the /funban
Federation admins should follow our Code Of Conduct to apply a federation ban ( /fban ) and to know when to apply a federation ban:
This is not the first time that the app has come under fire because of its privacy policy. The app has gained some notoriety after critics said it enabled extremist groups to communicate and grow their numbers. In Brazil earlier this year, a court ordered Apple and Google to remove Telegram from their app stores because of how it was being used to spread misinformation. (The latter ban was lifted in three days after Telegram complied with removal requests.)
But this latest case appears to be the first time that Telegram has been ordered by a court to disclose user data specifically related to copyright infringement anywhere, and the first time an Indian court has ordered any app to disclose data related to copyright infringement.
The Delhi High Court directed the Dubai-headquartered firm to submit the details, such as mobile numbers, IP addresses and email IDs used for uploading infringing content while hearing a lawsuit filed by a teacher against the messaging app and people involved in sharing her copyrighted study material.
Telegram argued that disclosing user information would violate its privacy policy and the laws of Singapore, where it has located its physical servers for storing user data.
However, the court has responded to the argument and said that copyright owners couldn’t be left “completely remediless against the actual infringers” because Telegram has chosen to locate its servers in Singapore.
Telegram didn’t respond to a request for a comment on the order.
In the filing with the court, the complainant named Neetu Singh submitted a list of channels circulating her lectures and books on competitive exams. The channels were selling the content at discounted prices, the complainant said.
“If there are any further list of infringing channels, the same be also submitted to Telegram within one week. The data relating to the infringing channels and the details as to the devices/servers/networks on which they are created, their creators, operators including any phone numbers, IP addresses, email addresses, used for this purpose shall be disclosed by Telegram within a period of two weeks thereafter,” the 51-page order (PDF) said.
