I wasn't aware his brother wasn't in Dubai nor that there was a purported "meet up" with Putin in Azerbaijan. I do agree with you that there is something else going on underneath the story we are hearing in the news but I am not sure what.
I do remember General Flynn coming out with that warning. At that time Telegram was having a surge among many MAGA circles in America - COVID was still haunting us and a lot of censorship was happening in real time and being talked about.
Flynn is not the most convincing to me personally. I am sympathetic to what happened to him during the Trump years but I have issues with how he makes some statements and some of his relationships.
I am noting how you describe him and how you say he is disliked by the people of Russia. I wasn't aware of anything to do with his lifestyle but if what you say is true then it does cause suspicion.
Last when you mention terrorists, I would only caution that this is often an argument made by governments when displeased with someone revealing information that was a net good for the populous. Julian Assange and Snowden both were accused of helping terrorism by the U.S. intel apparatus, to sway public opinion and damage control after their controversial actions were revealed. I do not argue the same case for Durov, but only that he would be a target of similar criticism by remaining neutral as he seems to have.
In terms of what the app was used for; if he caved to one government it would cause consequences to another, and so forth. This was an argument about U.S. social media that was at one point censoring MAGA styled groups but allowing Antifa to proliferate without issue.
Thank you u/Volpina for the information you've shared! Its always nice to hear other opinions especially with international perspective. 😎
Thank you. I am cautious about Flynn but I am more cautious about Durov. Rumors are that TG crypto was dumped before the arrest. If true something is obviously going on underground.
You have very good points, but the way I see it is concerning, as Durov broke the law and move the servers out of the country to prevent the government from blocking them yet he made them quite accessible to all the Google, Amazon and icloud things. And TG is intensely used by Russian military.
I found something interesting. It turned out the TG killed all russian accounts discussing the tax reform. There is a flat tax for all but people are discussing the benefits of a progressive system. Some accounts were active for years, thousands of followers, there were nothing illegal yet they were closed with no explanation. There were no legal actions nor complaints. Just closed. One more point towards my suspicion that oligarchs are behind TG as they definitely don't want a tax reform.
Another thing is presumably Durov can renounce french citizenship and get extradited to Russia. No wonder that his brother may be in Russia already. Thus the servers can be back to Russia.
I wasn't aware his brother wasn't in Dubai nor that there was a purported "meet up" with Putin in Azerbaijan. I do agree with you that there is something else going on underneath the story we are hearing in the news but I am not sure what.
I do remember General Flynn coming out with that warning. At that time Telegram was having a surge among many MAGA circles in America - COVID was still haunting us and a lot of censorship was happening in real time and being talked about.
Flynn is not the most convincing to me personally. I am sympathetic to what happened to him during the Trump years but I have issues with how he makes some statements and some of his relationships.
I am noting how you describe him and how you say he is disliked by the people of Russia. I wasn't aware of anything to do with his lifestyle but if what you say is true then it does cause suspicion.
Last when you mention terrorists, I would only caution that this is often an argument made by governments when displeased with someone revealing information that was a net good for the populous. Julian Assange and Snowden both were accused of helping terrorism by the U.S. intel apparatus, to sway public opinion and damage control after their controversial actions were revealed. I do not argue the same case for Durov, but only that he would be a target of similar criticism by remaining neutral as he seems to have.
In terms of what the app was used for; if he caved to one government it would cause consequences to another, and so forth. This was an argument about U.S. social media that was at one point censoring MAGA styled groups but allowing Antifa to proliferate without issue.
Thank you u/Volpina for the information you've shared! Its always nice to hear other opinions especially with international perspective. 😎
Thank you. I am cautious about Flynn but I am more cautious about Durov. Rumors are that TG crypto was dumped before the arrest. If true something is obviously going on underground. You have very good points, but the way I see it is concerning, as Durov broke the law and move the servers out of the country to prevent the government from blocking them yet he made them quite accessible to all the Google, Amazon and icloud things. And TG is intensely used by Russian military.
I found something interesting. It turned out the TG killed all russian accounts discussing the tax reform. There is a flat tax for all but people are discussing the benefits of a progressive system. Some accounts were active for years, thousands of followers, there were nothing illegal yet they were closed with no explanation. There were no legal actions nor complaints. Just closed. One more point towards my suspicion that oligarchs are behind TG as they definitely don't want a tax reform. Another thing is presumably Durov can renounce french citizenship and get extradited to Russia. No wonder that his brother may be in Russia already. Thus the servers can be back to Russia.