Telegram CEO Pavel Durov ARRESTED; Tucker Carlson, Edward Snowden CONDEMN...

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat

In 2014, Pavel Durov fled Russia, selling his multi-billion dollar social media company VK after refusing to censor content and share user's private information with the Russian government.

In 2024, France, an EU and NATO member, arrested Durov for refusing to censor content on Telegram.

What has happened to the West?

@durov

: "In 2012, we faced our first issues in Russia. Because I was a big believer in the values of free market, freedoms, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. So when the Russian opposition started to use VK to organize large protests in Russia, where almost half a million people would protest in the main square of the city, we were requested to ban these communities on VK by the government, and I refused."

@TuckerCarlson

: "So the government asked you to shut down communication between their opponents?"

@durov

: "It was a tool for these protestors to organize themselves. It wasn't about us siding with one political side or the other. It was about us defending freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, which we believed were the right things. But that didn't go too well with the government."

@TuckerCarlson

: "When the Russian government asked Pavel Durov to use his social media company to censor its political opponents, he refused. He said he would rather resign and leave the country where he was born than participate in something like that. Such was his commitment to free speech.

Now, you have to compare what Pavel Durov did to what Mark Zuckerberg or Parag Agrawal did, the guy who ran Twitter before

@elonmusk

bought it. Both of them collaborated with governments to censor people. And that's shameful."