Telegram founder Pavel Durov is one voice who has been consistent in his message about how western countries have become increasingly authoritarian in their efforts to retain power and control. Durov is the real deal; the John Galt within the mechanisms of digital communication.
The principle under attack is freedom, and the recent examples of internet and social media control via age verification are steps within this process. Durov notes these moments are like the early stages of the Titanic after hitting the iceberg, where people aboard the ship did not quite realize the scope of the danger around them.
Take the time to listen to what Durov shares with specific examples and citations to back up his warning. Well worth the time. Pavel Durov shares how Telegram emerged from a commitment to free expression and why defending digital freedom is central to protecting human rights today.
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Laughable that some people believe Western gov’ts care about protecting children and buy that justification to invade privacy.
Especially in Starmer’s UK. The UK has specific policies that encourage the rape and murder of particularly, White female girls.
The USA would be right there if not for President Trump.
Either that or we’d realize why the Founders enshrined the 2nd Amendment into the US Constitution.
3 more years. Then what?
No. We aren’t giving up guns. Illegals will struggle in my neighborhood.
I’m in an area where people move in having run from northeastern or west coast loonies who have cemented their hold on lawmaking. People are now, at least in my neck of the woods, generally awake.
Canada is currently pushing hard to, “Protect”, the children. They’re issuing warnings that they will not back down on their authority. .
As long as we understand some children are more equal than others.
Yes, very much like all other justice these days.
See my comment below dear Betsy.
The children of William and Catherine among them.
I think the story of the violent overthrow and murder of the Tsar and his family are a cautionary tale for current monarchs.
It goes back much farther than that…
https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-princes-in-the-tower/
“The Princes, sons of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, were born during the intense turmoil of the Wars of the Roses. On Edward’s death in 1483, his brother the Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) became Lord Protector of Edward’s son and heir, the 12-year-old Edward V. The Duke immediately placed Edward in the Tower of London, closely followed by his 9-year-old brother Richard, for ‘their protection’.”
When one hears “for your protection”…be afraid, be very afraid.
The old sayin, “the shortest way to someone’s money (or anything else) is through their kids”
I follow a family on instagram from the UK and the mother is “thrilled” about Starmer’s latest proclamation. They have two young girls who they feel will be protected by this mandate. I want to shake them and yell WAKE UP!
” For the children” nonsense has been with us for decades, George Carlin said it best “f__k the children” . Not because he wanted to hurt a child but he understood how big brother would us this focus group tested phrase to manipulate the public. He was correct.
We in the USA are resisting but the EU is falling far down the rabbit hole of DEI word police. See the UK serious jail time for speaking truth against the state narrative, like the Islamo-Goon invasions and rape gangs.
It’s way past time to poke out the 5-Eyes.
The Second Amendment is the US lifeboat.
Some here underestimate the power of this.
If I remember lightly Mr Durov was arrested by the little French dwarf, so that says a lot.
The largest standing army on the planet via the 2nd Amendment as the Founders intended. The ultimate check on runaway, Un-Constitutinal, government.
If we’re brave enough to use it, if and when necessary.
God first! Pray and fast!
Only need 1% to not stand by and do nothing.
Our second amendment is disappearing quickly. It will not be a lifeboat if the Dems are in charge in DC as they are in CO.
At first it’s very slow. Then it’s all at once.
Isn’t it ironic that this message is coming from someone who was born in the USSR?
… the other bit of irony can be found in the upper left hand corner of the video clip … this was recorded at the Oslo Freedom Forum …. inside the EU.
A man who spent his early years in the waning days of the Soviet system should be listened to. He knows from experience what our modern globalist commies are trying to pull.
In 10 years we may laugh when we say Russians have more freedoms then the western Countries.
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first strike down. They know its power.
Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence.”
Frederick Douglass
Die gedanken sind immer frei…until they aren’t. Thought police is ripe in leftist ideaology, they promote group think.
We are no better in this regard, just slower to implement.
The urge to control comes from all directions, since “they” are really two sides of the same coin.
It’s nothing new, either. I’m so old I remember when Reagan’s Transportation Department led the charge for a national drinking age of 21 in 1984 by tying it to DoT funding.
That irked me because I had friends who served. Some were drafted into the military at 18.
They were old enough to fight and die but not to legally drink. That was/is the epitome of hypocrisy.
And for a time — 18 year olds could not vote.
There is an overlooked/masked time in fairly recent history when the world witnessed the depraved reaction of the money changers when the emergence of truth posed an existential threat to their ancient designs.
Men like William Tyndall began to translate God’s word into the languages of the gloablists’ empire. A man named Gutenberg had provided for a free press across Europe and beyond, and the truth began to reach all men.
The reaction was swift and brutal from all powers – kings and bishops alike. The Inquisitions began.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Key take away, we are already there.
Correct.
Unfortunately we are already there. And the plan has been in place for decades.
Industrial-sized woodchippers for all those who harm children. Those cretins can not be rehabilitated.
The EU doesn’t protect any child from rape and murder by their imported Islam men. Not the UK, not France, not Germany, not Italy cares one bit for the children of the citizens.
I was watching trooping of the color in Britain and thought the Princess of Wales was upset by some anti monarchists along the carriage route who no doubt would affect the future of her and her children.
Does she consider there are people who have been welcomed into her country who would groom and attack her daughter and stab her sons without compunction?
Men are KNOWN by how they allow children to be treated.
Everyone should pass along this article. Watching “our” pathetic Senate squirm around in order to avoid the will of the people re 702 shows how much “our betters” respect our privacy, and thus free speech rights.
Tim Burchett is correct. There should be a WARRANT necessary for 702
Spectre / Deep Dream
People ran away from European countries to get to the US. The US rich are running away from US places like Commiefornia and New Dork. The places to run to are getting fewer and fewer. Since evil ones can’t get where they want thru honest debate and argument, they are getting there as quick as possible with fraudulent elections like in your face Commiefornia (LA mayor race). And making it illegal to question anything.
I have always believed that when a Democrat says “it’s for the children”, hang onto your wallet and hang onto your freedom.
I have realize that the Democrat party is a member of a globalist totalitarian movement, created for elitist control of everything. I don’t know when they morphed into this, but it is excellerating.
My family and I had that conversation, the one about ‘its for the children’, many, many years ago…late 1970’s…
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My first thoughts go to you Sundance and all that you and your various people have had to do to give us the freedoms we have here. Few newbies probably don’t know the struggle you’ve had to face and overcome. My second thoughts, which seems always to go, is to the gatekeepers of congress. They hold the keys to law and though many will say my wors are a broken record, it is where, in my opinion, the damage is allowed and the need to fix comes into play. Republicans and democrats need to be replaced with those who value freedoms of the people, not media, not government but us. How? Truly its beyond me for the keepers are behind iron walls.