Durov Arrest comments 1. Global messaging apps with serious privacy...
Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯@akarlin
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Aug 26, 2024
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Durov Arrest comments
1. Global messaging apps with serious privacy commitments should block Europe and UK.
It will at the least be amusing to see Breton have to start railing against VPNs like some tinpot dictator.
1. Global messaging apps with serious privacy commitments should block Europe and UK.
It will at the least be amusing to see Breton have to start railing against VPNs like some tinpot dictator.
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2. It emerges it wasn't evil immigrants or even "socialists" who were the problem (France is under centrist neolib heartthrob Macron), but Europe's deep cultural anti-capitalist, anti-free speech malaise.
Don't waste your energy and freedom fighting them. Exit. Let them starve.
Don't waste your energy and freedom fighting them. Exit. Let them starve.
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3. The only sustainable long-term solution is to anchor privacy in decentralized protocols, instead of relying on centralized structures such as Telegram or this very app that can be decapitated alongside their CEOs whenever they happen to set foot in the wrong country.
Some suggest playing off the Great Powers against each other in order to give space to privacy and free speech. For instance, have President Trump (if he wins) withdraw NATO protections from countries that don't have a 1A type Constitutional provision, because a guy who called for criminalizing the burning of the American flag deeply appreciates the value of speech speech. Or perhaps do as Durov is alleged to have done, and open up Telegram to the FSB in return for sanctuary in Russia (though if true that would make his flight to France quite inexplicable). Problem is, none of this is going to work over the long-term, even beyond the sordid moral compromises that they necessarily entail, and which taint free speech and privacy as ideals in the eyes of the normie masses by association.
Some suggest playing off the Great Powers against each other in order to give space to privacy and free speech. For instance, have President Trump (if he wins) withdraw NATO protections from countries that don't have a 1A type Constitutional provision, because a guy who called for criminalizing the burning of the American flag deeply appreciates the value of speech speech. Or perhaps do as Durov is alleged to have done, and open up Telegram to the FSB in return for sanctuary in Russia (though if true that would make his flight to France quite inexplicable). Problem is, none of this is going to work over the long-term, even beyond the sordid moral compromises that they necessarily entail, and which taint free speech and privacy as ideals in the eyes of the normie masses by association.
