Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world. Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago:
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-interview-pavel-durov
I think what Putin wanted was for the Telegram servers to be centralized in Russia, to avoid possible confiscations in countries that perhaps Russia could not protect a Russian citizen.