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Pavel can't be trusted in any way. Russia is at war with Europe, russians are living in a bloody dictatorship and there is zero freedom of speech in Russia. Yet
by siva7 1y ago
Pavel can't be trusted in any way. Russia is at war with Europe, russians are living in a bloody dictatorship and there is zero freedom of speech in Russia. Yet his tweet is only about western democracies in Europe - exactly what you would expect from a Putin puppet.
- SilverElfin 1y agoHe also has French citizenship. Perhaps he cares about defending those values where they are still viable. That makes him more trustworthy not less.
- siva7 1y agoOh nice, so i'm sure he is defending our freedom by living in France as a french citizen like the rest of us where freedom of speech actually exists fur russian guys like him? But i forgot, he chose instead just another dictatorship in the middle east. I guess that makes him even more trustworthy.
- realusername 1y agoThe fact that Putin reversed his stance and Telegram isn't banned in Russia anymore is all you need to know on his values.
- sam_lowry_ 1y agoIt's covered in the interview. The Russian state backed off when they figured that the only way to ban Telegram is to also break large pieces of the country's digital infrastructure, because Telegram was using Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, Hetzner address ranges for its proxies to evade blocking. Now, Telegram is also an important part of military communication in Russia. Probably not that often for the chain-of-command, but there are dozens of channels that cover frontline news and war in details, and these somewhat independent media outlets are as important to the Russian government as they are to the CIA.
- realusername 1y agoI never believed that, there's too many coincidence with his visit to Russia and the Russian state investment in Telegram at the same time.
- sam_lowry_ 1y agoIIRC, Roskomsvoboda had a project to figure out the banned IPs and ranges, and mitigations were widely discussed on habr.ru and specialized forums. The whole story unrolled in real-time and publicly. I don't think there's any doubt about its veracity.