Digital Gulag in French

If Durov is imprisoned, Musk is the next

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The head of the telegram Pavel Durov was arrested on Saturday, when he landed in Paris on a private plane.

Pavel Durov's case is fundamental. This is whether a modern Western society will go along the path of digital freedom or along the path of a digital Gulag, and the Gulag, built at the expense of ordinary citizens and private companies. Ten years ago, it seemed that only dictatorships wanted to build such a gulag.

Alas.

If Durov is broken, then Musk is the next.

Let's start from the beginning. French justice arrested Pavel Durov in the framework of a certain case against an unidentified person accused of distributing child pornography, drug trafficking, money laundering, and - a cherry on a cake, “providing cryptographic services for confidentiality without a declaration of conformity”. Gorgeous formulation. The FSB smokes nervously on the sidelines.

Do not be lazy, follow the link, and pay attention to how the accusation is outlandishly formulated. The case was initiated against the “unidentified person”, and Durov “interviewed” in the framework of this case.

Go understand - he is the accused, the suspect, or at all, he was just accidentally flying by, and then he was invited to go and sit.

Such an ambiguous accusation is a very bad sign. She shows - as it often happens in the West now - that we are talking about a certain extrajudicial procedure, which is committed bypassing really unshakable principles, such as the independence of the court.

The court is independent, but we are with you, a situation of Durov, not in court. We are just talking here. And it depends on the results of our conversation with you whether you will go on trial tomorrow on charges of pedophilia, or fly away by a free person tomorrow in a sunny oak. And the court is independent, yes.

We will be frank. Durov - ENFANT TERRIBLE DISTRACTION. Pavel Durov in Europe is considered an agent of chaos, and it is believed that Putin is interested in this chaos.

French secret services are not satisfied that telegrams in Europe are used as a darknet-lute, the first is darkened in a circle: for terrorist attacks, drug trafficking, etc.

At first glance, the discontent of the special services may seem reasonable. Well, in fact, who approves of terrorism?

In fact, it has a very serious logical mistake.

First, we ask a simple question. Pavel Durov lives in Dubai. And in Dubai there are no terrorist attacks. And Emir Dubai on this occasion has no complaints about Durov.

Maybe there are no terrorist attacks in Dubai because of some special agreement of Durov? Maybe he modrates chats dedicated to terrorism in Dubai?

Answer: Not at all. There are no terrorist attacks in Dubai, because there are effective special services. They eliminate anyone who gets ready to arrange a terrorist attack before he will do it. They do their job, not regulate telegrams. Moreover, they use telegram, if necessary.

There is nothing more convenient for the special services how to go into the chat that grows Islamists, determine the participants and harvest.

But if your city suburbs have turned into forbidden zones; if you do not send the imams preaching jihad; If you are afraid to call a terrorist attack - a terrorist attack, and after each next knife attack or a burned cathedral, you preach the gospel of multiculturalism - are you really sure that Durov is to blame?

If the creator of the platform on which they flourish is responsible for terrorism, drug addiction and pedophilia, is it not responsible for terrorism, drug addiction and pedophilia in France the current platform administrators named France, that is, its president, government and security forces?

And if he created a platform for terrorism, then why is it not flourishing in Dubai? Telegram is there, is it turned off?

The same applies to accusations of drug trafficking, pedophilia, and other terrible words, which in this case are used as a means of emotional blackmail. We immediately imagine a terrible snuff-video, and we should become disgusting to protect a person who, under the guise of “protecting freedom of speech” allowed this to exist on his platform.

Imagine, however, Kopa about fifty years ago, which they ask: why didn’t you cover a gang of pedophiles/drug addicts in your town? And he replies: “They agree through letters, and the chief postmaster does not allow to perlust the mail. There who is the culprit - the postmaster! I accuse him of complicity and demand to give him 20 years! "

The answer to such a cop would be an explosion of laughter.

The drug dealer is installed in a completely different way. They are working. They are introduced into a gang.

And if in the course of this work to come to the postmaster - or Durov, with the court decision that we need to read this correspondence, do not moderate everything - but to open this particular, then we can be sure that Durov will do everything that can, although in cases where the secret chat is protected by double through encryption, the Durov itself is powerless.

And if they just don’t shout at the stations: “But who is the best hash?”, And the police turn away, and then it turns out that Durov is to blame - it does not seem to you that this is too much?

In fact, all this - terrorism, and drug trafficking, and trading in children - there is a sign of two very important processes.

One is the absolute degradation of the police in many EU countries, including France. And the point is not just the growth of the number of crimes: rape, for example, increased in France in 2023 by 10% compared to 2022, 5% murders, attacks by 7%, etc. But the fact is that in an increasing number of European countries, crimes are not disclosed, not registered, entire quarters are turned into a zone forbidden for the police, and instead of robberies and rape, the police investigate thought -crime and memes. (In all this, probably, Durov is also to blame).

The other is the tendency of the entire modern bureaucracy. Instead of ensuring the safety of citizens at the expense of police work, she tries to ensure this security by increasing regulations and reducing freedom, and the costs of both the same and otherwise on its own victims.

What should be done to fight money laundering? Penetrate into the gang. What does the bureaucracy do? Introduces banking compliance.

What should be done to end drugs? Improve into the gang. But there is difficult, dirty, and in general, if you take the gang, then the riots will begin according to the results of your work.

It is much easier to take Durov and force him to give the keys and introduce moderation. That is, to destroy the rules by which telegram was created. At the same time, we are not children and we understand that both Durov and all other platforms in specific cases with special services collaborate, and that is right.

From Durov, apparently, they want another. They want to give the keys and modest the content.

And this is the most important thing.

This arrest is not about private things. He is about what future the West awaits: digital freedom or digital gulag.

2-3% percent of the vote in competitive elections decide the fate of the country. Mark Zuckerberg has just admitted that at the request of the FBI, before the elections of 2020, he censored posts about Biden and Burism (this is enough to lose the elections), Google was repeatedly convicted of issuing issuance. Only after buying Twitter, did we learn about the enormous volume of censorship, which was carried out by Twitter under the guise of moderation under the pressure of the state, but at the same time for his, Twitter, money.

Previously, the state could control the flows of information reaching the consciousness of citizens through hierarchical networks. Radio. Television. Traditional media. Now these traditional media are becoming increasingly engaged, and they are replaced by single -level decentralized networks, overflowing with fakes, Heit, and at the same time - freedom. With these decentralized networks are fighting under the guise of fighting fakes. But in fact, they are not fighting not with fakes, but with the right to receive information from distributed networks.

It was on the tip of this struggle against digital censorship that Pavel Durov was always. He sold VK so as not to be her accomplice. He founded telegram to fight her. He refused to cooperate with the FBI, who wanted to have the back door in Telegram and paid for this the collapse of his star project - Gram cryptocurrencies.

The same American establishment that found a common language with Zuckerberg recognized Gram too dangerous. Judging by the fact that after the collapse of this project, Durov flew to Russia, we can assume that the Russian state took advantage of the US mistake. But I somehow doubt that he allegedly deliberately flew to France to sit down. Negotiations with any special service are best done at large. There are more arguments.

In the person of Telegram, Pavel Durov created the most advanced digital environment for group private communication. No other messenger is simply close nearly in terms of convenience and the functions provided by telegram.

That is why it is so willingly used by everyone who needs privacy, speed and simplicity. In particular, for example, Russian troops, which de facto through telegrams control drones. GRU agents abroad who create a chat like: “Poland for Putin”, and then throw a cry in it: “And who could beat Volkova here?” (Yes, those who beat Volkov, hired and paid through telegrams). Traders of children's porn and drugs. Terrorists.

This is an integral consequence of a convenient secret application. Telegram is so successful because it is simply super -invested. APU also uses telegram, although less often. This is a wide part of the phenomenon that was noticeable at the beginning of the war. In the digital era, some network civil things are made so well that they are entirely used by the military, and any specially military thing on the same topic (say, special military messenger) will be obviously worse, more expensive, and why invent the bicycle?

The same with telegram channels. If you allow everyone to write, then you allow the cannibals to write. You will have Z-Posts, where you will noisily enjoy the shelling of Kyiv, and you will have similar Ukrainian publics, where you will noisily enjoy the shelling of Belgorod.

Freedom of speech cannot be selective. As soon as you prohibit “bad” posts, you must create an instance that will determine who is bad and who is not. As soon as you create an authority, you kill freedom.

It’s like Catholic priests were afraid of the Protestant Church.

Then the Catholic priests also put forward the thesis that if a person is allowed to talk to God without intermediaries, then this God will say to him that this man will go to run naked as adamites in the Czech Republic, or turn all the women of the city into his sexual slaves, like the Messiah of John Leiden in Munster. And, indeed, then God then said a lot of things to anyone. But in the end, it somehow tired. And it’s scary to imagine where the world would be without a reformation.

It is no coincidence that the arrest of Durov was met by an explosion of indignation by the right, and an almost complete ignore from the left.

The exception was only that part of the Russian opposition that could not control her from joy and immediately declared

• What once Zakharova protects Durov, it means that he collaborates with the FSB,

• that he flew to France on purpose to sit down,

• What the French prosecutor’s office will punish and punish tightly, this scoundrel, who allows the Z-channels to exist.

I always thought that the opposition is about not kissing the boot of Comrade Major. It turns out that in many cases it is just a bunch of losers who joyfully ran to kiss a boot to Comrade Major, if the major is French.

And even vying to blame Durov of what, we note, his French comrade Major does not blame.