Telegram Founder Pavel Durov: Privacy is Not for Sale

[kreslik.news]

Earlier today news that the Russian court has blocked access to the popular private messaging app Telegram. As the country’s authorities are preparing to enact the ban, the founder, and CEO of the company, Pavel Durov took the opportunity to share his opinion with the public via his own channel on the app.

“The power that local governments have over IT corporations is based on money. At any given moment, a government can crash their stocks by threatening to block revenue streams from its markets and thus force these companies to do strange things (remember how last ... (read more)