Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, says that passengers on the Titanic actually didn’t want to leave the ship for almost two hours after it hit the iceberg.
Pavel Durov says we are in a similar situation: our ship has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink without even realizing it. He is talking about the ship of our personal freedoms.
He says that personal freedoms have been eroded almost everywhere in the world, with very few exceptions. He has witnessed firsthand the methods governments use to suppress our freedoms and take away our basic rights. He has seen all the tricks: the PR tricks, the legal tricks, the political tricks, the manipulations, and the official excuses.
The thing that bothers him most today is that some of the same tricks employed by authoritarian regimes in places like Russia, China, and Iran are now also being used in some Western countries.
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Here are some key statements from Pavel Durov:
“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts.”
“You say something politically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison. In Germany, people get arrested and persecuted for insulting politicians online, thousands of people every year.”
“You call a politician a bigot or a thief online and you can serve up to 3 years in prison. So, now people are afraid to use their real identities. People stop using their real names when they make comments online.”
“The criminals will be fine. It will be the law-abiding citizens who will be put in danger.”
“Last year, a French tax official was caught stealing the financial data of people who held large amount of crypto assets… you have a catastrophic rise in the number of kidnappings in France. Just in the first 3 months of 2026, you have over 40 victims of kidnappings in France.”
“Another trick that has been used by authoritarians for decades. And now it is being increasingly exported from the East to the West. I’m talking about selective enforcement of laws.
The way it works is pretty straightforward. First, you need to introduce a large number of laws. You need to overburden a certain industry with excessive, mutually exclusive, contradictory regulation. As a result, you make compliance impossible. Now you can treat every entrepreneur, every CEO, every business owner in this country as a criminal.
But then the government carefully starts to choose who to persecute. If the business owner is loyal, if it complies with immoral, unlawful demands from the government, gives certain political favors, then the law enforcement system and the judicial system look the other way. But if the business owner decides to stand up for the constitutional rights of his or her fellow citizens, if they refuse to cave in to political demands from the authoritarian government, then the persecution comes in full.”
“We cannot afford to have this ship sunk. There is nowhere to escape. In the past, dissidents from authoritarian countries could flee to the West. But if the current trajectory continues, in a decade or two from now, they will have hard time trying to understand whether they have already left their repressive homeland or they’re just entering another open-air prison.”
“Those who are willing to give up their essential liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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Which would you choose: essential liberty or temporary safety?
BREAKING 🇺🇸 A TOTAL BAN ON CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES IS NOW LAW IN AMERICA
TODAY IS OFFICIALLY THE 1st DAY THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM ISSUING A DIGITAL DOLLAR
THE US IS NOW 1st MAJOR ECONOMY IN THE WORLD TO BAN A CBDC PROTECTING THE RIGHTS AND PRIVACY OF ALL CITIZENS
THE PRECEDENT IS UNPRECEDENTED
THIS IS HISTORY 🔥
MICHAEL SAYLOR SAID IF AMERICA BUYS BITCOIN ITS ALLIES AND ENEMIES WILL HAVE TO "BUY IT BACK AT $10 MILLION, $20 MILLION OR $50 MILLION A COIN."
"THIS IS THE MODERN DIGITAL GOLD RUSH." 🔥
BREAKING: Brazil approves regulatory framework for Starlink Direct to Cell.
• Anatel approved the regulatory framework for Direct-to-Cell satellite services.
• The rules allow mobile spectrum to be used for satellite-to-phone connectivity.
• Starlink will still need a partnership with a Brazilian mobile carrier before commercial service can launch.
• Regular LTE smartphones could connect directly to satellites.
• The move is a major step toward nationwide coverage in remote and underserved regions across Brazil.
#BREAKING 🚨 BOOOOM 💥💥
Billionaire JACK DORSEY has done it again! His app BITCHAT lets users SEND BITCOIN WITHOUT THE INTERNET! This is next-level tech for the crypto world!
WHAT A GAME CHANGER! 🎉
MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED IT WILL CANCEL AI LICENSES FOR THOUSANDS OF ENGINEERS AFTER COSTS EXPLODED
VP OF NVIDIA SAID, “THE COST OF AI FOR MY TEAM WAS MORE THAN HUMANS”
“AI CAN COST MORE THAN HUMAN WORKERS NOW”
🔥🇺🇸 CLARITY ACT WEEK 🇺🇸🔥
The U.S. Senate is set to finalize the CLARITY Act next week, a move that could unlock over $30 BILLION in fresh capital for the crypto market.
Regulatory clarity is coming.
XRP is ready. 🚀
JUST IN: YOU CAN NOW SEND MONEY TO CHINA INSTANTLY ON #BITCOIN'S LIGHTNING NETWORK VIA LIGHTSPARK
A $1,000,000,000,000 MARKET OPENING TO BTC
ABSOLUTELY GAME CHANGING 🔥
O engenheiro que criou o Claude Code acaba de lançar um vídeo de 28 minutos onde te ensina a escrever prompts que realmente funcionam.
Já vi cursos de 300 dólares que não chegam nem à metade do que ele explica nos primeiros 10 minutos.
Arquivos CLAUDE.md, atalhos de memória, sessões paralelas e padrões de prompting que mudam o jogo.
Tudo em um único vídeo e completamente grátis.
Não importa se você é desenvolvedor, iniciante ou já usa o Claude há meses. Isso vai explodir sua cabeça.
#BREAKING 🚨 BOOOOM 💥💥
MICHAEL SAYLOR DROPS A BOMB: "IF PEOPLE KNEW WHAT I KNEW, BITCOIN WOULD SKYROCKET TO $10 MILLION TOMORROW!" HE'S GOT INSIGHT INTO THE FUTURE THAT'S UNMATCHED!
WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED! STACK THOSE SATS! 🔥
We are going to 10-20x from these prices
I bet my entire life, 9-10yrs worth of research & entire net worth on this moment
I warned you about the nasty correction…
Now I’m warning you that life changing wealth is about to come
You all deserve what’s about to happen