I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast - while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms -and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction - moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. We are running out of time.
Since you are so about unreasoably insulting people, I drew a picture of you.
Get your act together. There are issues out there to be solved but they won’t be solved by infighting, especially not by you.
Also, the Telegram billionaire is a lying piece of shit. Anyone barely literate about privacy will avoid that platform, for their private messages, with a 10 foot pole.
Lol even if he is a piece of shit and lies. He contributed a platform and you haven’t. So you must be the Beatle that feeds on the shit. I don’t care what you say. The message is clear and is more useful that several decades of your life
I mean since I’m not using his oh so worthy platform I guess I’m not said beetle? I am also a young dev and have already made a record in the privavy community and plan to make even better progress, so you’re just plain wrong that I may not have contributed anything. Sucking up to a billionaire as much as you just did really makes you sound like you’re part of a cult.
What I found most alarming about this whole thing: this post showed up in the Telegram app for me, in a banner. I don’t follow Durov’s channel. He decided to push it to every Telegram client regardless of whether they’re following him.
Mine looks weird 😄
This isn’t true. I did not receive it at all. I found this on a news website that basically screenshotted his post. Then I extracted the text and posted it here
Okay well, I did. It was on the iOS Telegram client, US phone number. Maybe Pavel pushed it only to certain clients.
The guy who made bank on Russian suppression of communication: “Europe is the problem.”
Now, if there only was a software one could control, that could be made to offer real good privacy and encryption……
Yeah telegram isn’t the best. They need encryption by default in private group chats and personal one on ones even without secret chat activated But the point is people need to stop the government censorship. Only if their were people who weren’t slaves that could demand and force the government to stop egregious practices, instead of trying to be smartasses online
You‘re not wrong. But all of that needs private, trustworthy software…
The free internet is already dead. Where has this guy been hiding that he didn’t know that.
It is and isn’t.
I’d compare the people who use technologies like this to the internet users of the 90’s and those who use facebag, tweeker and insta to the AOL users back then.
Yes, we’re the minority, but that is how people have always been. Most people don’t want freedom. But those that do still have plenty of options. Don’t forget that “they” didn’t originally plan on us plebes having true encryption tech and privacy cryptos. It is possible that we are doing better than it looks.
But yea… his comment sounds more like something we would have said 20 years ago, rather than the present. I agree with your point.
Yeah censorship is rising but it’s not at 100% this is what is being spoken on
what is up with this batshit insane post, i know this was written by some right wing facist, people like you are the reason it is like this
this was the dude arrested because he let drug trafficking and csam go unchecked on telegram… so naturally it makes sense that he’ll lurch rightward.
He is not responsible for the user uploads. Telegram deletes illegal activity. If it’s a private group they don’t know what’s happening. CSAM has been on YouTube and they do little about it. But your masters didn’t tell you to hate Google yet.
I call bullshit show me the story where CSAM has been on YouTube.
Look up the rest yourself. Google hides most of the news about it. So they are useless to search it up
it’s his service; he’s absolutely responsible or it. he was arrested because he DIDN’T do anything about it.
He was arrested because he didn’t stop people from having freedom of speech. He wasn’t and hasn’t been found guilty of anything.
posessing csam is not “freedom of speech”.
nevermind the fact that telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection against csam groups to address the problem of csam on their service.
Are you stupid on purpose? I’m saying thats the real reason they arrested him. They wanted to censor freedom of speech. Not scam
its everyone elses fault that he let csam unchecked on his app?
It’s the people who posted it fault. You think that one human can read everyone’s messages lol? They would need to spy on everyone and have millions of employees specifically looking for illegal activity.
People are so righteous but have done nothing to ensure that the Epstein files were revealed.
Oh yes it had nothing with him not doing anything about child porn nothing at all.
Correct.
