Not receiving any messages from my telegram bot - configuration

One of my telegram bots is not receiving any messages from anywhere/anybody/any-method.
Is there any way to config telegram bot not to receive anything? I might have done that to my that specific telegram bot long ago, as all the rest of my telegram bots are just fine.
Basically, to confirm that, I loop-call
https://api.telegram.org/botmybot_token/getUpdates
But I always get {"ok":true,"result":[]} for my that specific telegram bot, even when I'm sending numerous messages to it meanwhile, whereas all the rest of my telegram bots return normal update json just fine.
UPDATE:
So I just created two brand new bots, and for one I always get {"ok":true,"result":[]} while the other is fine. Strange.

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