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?
🚨Play by the rules or get played
Watch how this Somalian guy didn't want to buy a train ticket so he hit the female train conductor, so another train conductor comes in and deals him in his own manor… was this justified?
No vieron una red de pedófilos que abuso de 250.000 niñas inglesas durante 20 años pero van a parar el abuso infantil escaneando los WhatsApp de 450.0M de europeos.
Tiene lógica.
No te confundas: estas mujeres no estan luchando por su derecho a vestirse con burka. Estan luchando para que vos tambien lleves burka. No les alcanza con tener sus vidas arruinadas. Quieren arruinarte la vida a vos tambien. Son malas, envidiosas y brutas.
Es @fjosealcaraz, diputado de @vox_es, denunciando la asfixia del sector olivarero.
Es @fjosealcaraz defendiendo a un sector al que el bipartismo hunde desde Europa permitiendo la competencia desleal de países como Túnez o Marruecos y desde España arrancando miles y miles de olivos centenarios para sustituirlos por placas solares y beneficiar a empresas extranjeras.
El bipartismo siempre contra España!
#NiUnPasoAtrás
SÁNCHEZ ESTUDIA LA JUGADA MÁS MALÉVOLA Y SUCIA
Y cual sería? La que le dejaría limpio de polvo y paja desde el punto de vista judicial.
Y como tiene pensado hacerlo?
Consiguiendo una IMPUTACION antes de las próximas elecciones. Como lo habéis leído: Sanchez salvaría su pellejo si es imputado en los próximos meses.
La jugada es maldita, pero cumple perfectamente sus objetivos. Si Sánchez es imputado, le tiene que investigar el T. Supremo. Pero para que esto suceda, es necesario que el Supremo pida permiso al Congreso para poder hacerlo (SUPLICATORIO)
En la situación en la que estamos y siendo EXCEPCIONAL, el Congreso, con su mayoría actual guerracivilista, diría NO.
Y cuáles son las consecuencias de ese NO? Pues es la equivalencia a una sentencia exculpatoria, Sanchez estaría exonerado de toda imputación y de todo delito. Cosa Juzgada.
Y limpio de polvo y paja, el miserable volvería al punto de partida, acabando el destrozo, que ese es su objetivo, de España. Diabólico? Absolutamente satánico.
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Un fotógrafo venezolano documentó a los israelíes que llegaron para ayudar después del terremoto, como una forma de agradecerles.
¿Alguien vio una delegación de Podemos ? De la flotilla de Greta? De la izquierda de algún país que incluso recibieron millones de dólares del régimen chavista los últimos 20 años? No, ninguno fue, todos son humanistas del pico para afuera, nunca tan claro que todos esos colectivos no tienen valores, solo intereses
🔴 #ÚLTIMAHORA | Un marroquí de 29 años apuñala con cuchillo de cocina a dos parejas homosexuales (19-23 años) en la playa de Malvarrosa.
⚠️ Les robó mientras profería insultos homófobos y puso el arma en el cuello de una víctima. Dos acuchillados en distintas partes del cuerpo.
Águilas (Murcia), hace unas horas.
ℹ️ Según fuentes de la Guardia Civil, más de medio centenar. Los traficantes ya van de vuelta… Un helicóptero para 250 kilómetros de litoral en plena oleada de inmigración ilegal desde Argelia.
⚠️ ILEGALES con bolsa de la CRUZ ROJA pasan por delante de pasajeros que han comprado su billete en un barco Formentera - Ibiza.
Esta es la realidad de nuestras islas. Y todo esto lo pagamos con nuestros impuestos.