Telegram has blocked the channel of the leader of the ‘Men’s state’.

Telegram has blocked the channel of the leader of the ‘Men’s state’.

Telegram has blocked the channel of the leader of the ‘Men’s state’.
A day before, the profile of the ‘Men’s state’ organization was blocked on YouTube platform. However, we note that the backup channel with 55 thousand subscribers continues to work.

Telegram blocked the channel of the leader of the movement Vladislav Pozdnyakov (98 thousand subscribers) on the wording ‘violation of the rules of the App Store or Google Play’ - we are talking about discrimination of persons on the basis of sexual orientation. In addition to the backup channel of the ‘Men’s State’, the channel through which the ‘raids’ are organized also continues to work. YouTube's profile has been closed due to multiple hate speech violations.
Earlier, the prosecutor's office of Nizhny Novgorod filed a lawsuit demanding to recognize the ‘Men’s State’ an extremist organization.
In August, Vladislav Pozdnyakov attacked the chain of Tanuki restaurants. The chain used photographs of dark-skinned people in advertising - the ‘Men’s State’ demanded to remove them and apologize to Russians. ‘Tanuki’ did not follow the provocateurs' lead and demanded to stop the persecution, publicly appealing to Pavel Durov to block the Telegram channel of Pozdnyakov.

To ‘punish’ the restaurant, the participants of the organization placed orders without prepayment, and then cancelled them. ‘Ebidoebi’ and ‘Tandyr No. 1’ chains faced similar problems.
The ‘Men’s State’ was created by Vladislav Pozdnyakov in 2016 and promoted the ideas of patriarchy and nationalism.
As a rule, members of the movement are engaged in persecution of LGBT people and women, who, according to Pozdnyakov, behave ‘obscenely’.

In 2018, the leader of the movement was handed a suspended sentence of 2 years under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - actions aimed at humiliation of the human dignity in relation to women. But due to changes in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the sentence was canceled a few months later. The community of the ‘Men’s State’ in ‘VKontakte’ social network was blocked in 2020 due to calls for violent actions, after which Pozdnyakov moved to Telegram.

13.10.2021