Pavel Durov, Kim Dotcom, The Cradle, RNN, Scott Ritter, Richard Medhurst, Dimitri Simes, et al.
There is no freedom of speech on the Internet. There are only different degrees of unfreedom.
No norms of international law, chatter about freedom of speech and opinion, appeals, or people protesting in the streets will protect anyone from anything. Blocs moving to totalitarianism, but generally trusted a few scant years ago, can now act with impunity if one of the emerging blocs decides to destroy/imprison/take control of one of those who once believed in it.
There is political expediency. The possibility of unrestrained violence and coercion – a pathetic fig leaf of “human rights” or a fat bank account – does not guarantee that anyone will be left alone to continue with their life.
We could look at all of these people listed in the header and add a number more, and for everyone, we will find a manufactured case, just different enough to keep the masses slavering for more useless facts about the case. Then the fact-checkers jump in and we have a second round of slavering. Then the ‘community notes’ start and there is another round of slavering. But the person remains incarcerated or otherwise kneecapped and cannot do his or her job.
Durov is a kidnapping by psychopaths. Just before his plane landed for refueling, his arrest orders were cut. Of course, he was sold out and someone walked away with a nice batch of money having sold a soul.
Kim Dotcom is a raid, they want his money and he has plenty of Bitcoin – just as they tried to exhaust the ability of Assange to keep defending himself. His case also functions for the principle of ‘the long arm of the law’ fear-mongering to impress others.
Scott Ritter in my mind, remembering the first airport raid to take his passport, was largely naivete, but they would have gotten to him in another way. And so we can go on years into the past. Scott Ritter is a rich ‘catch’, as they went for his associates. The ‘Judge’ had to change where he stored his Scott Ritter interviews and George Galloway had to mothball all Scott Ritter interviews. It is still circling out.
And so every case is a little different but they are all the same. Sometimes it has nothing to do with the person, but is a fight between the agencies.
Everyone is shouting about freedom of speech. It’s not freedom of speech, it is No Freakin’ Freedom To Be Human! ‘Freedom of speech’ is just a feel-good meme these days. No one, no document, can give anyone freedom of speech. At best, it can guarantee that it will not infringe on the human’s ability to form ideas and to speak. The man Durov is incarcerated. He cannot continue his normal life. Many are scared that their private and confidential conversations on Telegram will be exposed. Kindly learn for the future. A software could be seriously immune to intervention today, but tomorrow is another day. We live by iteration. Yesterday morning Telegram was fine, today Telegram is compromised.
The rest of us slaver for a hint of a quote from the person, or a glimpse in the window of a vehicle, or for a press release by attorneys. His interview with Tucker Carlson is everywhere on X and possibly other places too. (Watch it, it is good!) I gave up piling through the X posts to find something else besides Durov. Hezbollah did their first strike in retaliation for Zion killing one of their leaders last evening. Pavel Durov was arrested because he stopped to refuel his plane in Paris last evening.
It is not that I don’t like him or that I like him. That is so besides the point, missing it by a mile! To NOT like him is NO reason for NOT seeing what is happening here. (Yes, yes I know .. double negatives galore!)
Here is a hint. Could it be this? Telegram refused Israel’s request to censor them. Anti-Israel hackers who stole gigabytes of sensitive Israeli data have been publishing classified information on TELEGRAM.
Could it be this? Former US President Donald Trump says Israel is “so tiny” on the map, and wonders if there’s a way to make it bigger!
Sure, it could be any of those or a hundred other reasons for nabbing Durov. It can also be sheer hatred because he is Russian and successful.
The problem is not the reason, the problem is the existence of the milieu for that reason to exist.
The real reason is that the west has turned into paranoid fascists, with the work carried out by psychopaths. They are paranoid about losing control. And they are still strong! And that mind virus is highly contagious!. The more success, the more high profile the arrest, the bigger the fascist orgasmic joy. The arrestees think it is about them, they think it is because their own message is so compelling that they are dangerous to psychopaths. It is not about you! It is about the power of the fascist psychopath. He is the cat, you are the mouse!
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Chechnya made a comment on the Ukrainian invaders in Kursk, who came to kill civilians. He says: “They cannot be released – they have no faith, nor humanity.” This is what we are dealing with in the west, those who have no faith, nor humanity. Those that are in deep joy today, for having deceived and ‘nabbed Durov’
Sorry Durov! I sincerely hope you get through this and you have my support! You are going to need the type of bravery that Julian Assange showed.
Russian political analyst Alexander Kargin:
- France, which cannot cope with crime at home and where riots have become commonplace, has decided to put Durov on trial.
- Pavel Durov, who, with a small team, created one of the best messengers in the world, a social network based on freedom of speech, without which millions of people can no longer imagine their lives.
- And that’s what he will be judged for.
For freedom and success.
I just realised that Telegram is still up and running, Global South is fine, so I’m not sure what the fuss is about? A not very russian Russian Oligarch getting arrested is not unusual these days, i suppose they could confiscate his wealth and that might bring an opportunity for… Read more »
And how fitting that Tucker gets to interview him on X, the Only True Bastion of free speech, Tucker and Musk two utter deplorables in the correct sense of the word. I won’t watch it as Tuckers fake shrieking disturbs me, why should I watch billionaires pfaff on about “free… Read more »
Telegram team issues first statement on its founder’s arrest, calls out absurdity of accusations against Durov “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the statement published on the official Telegram channel said. “Telegram abides by EU laws, including the… Read more »
This reminds me of when Trudeau was ordered by Trump and his administration to arrest Meng Wanzhou who was under house arrest for years. One is reminded of Cesaire’s words – “Europe is morally and spiritually indefensible.”
Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski sees the writing on the wall – quickly packs bags and leaves Europe.
In addition to being Russian (and naive about it, as most elites fancying themselves supranational), and TG under the gun, the timing is key. It is a major narrative change, no? Perhaps the nazis learned Hezbollah would strike hours later.. or simply needed to get the Genocide off the headlines… Read more »
I think well, I know, Medvedev is a little off the mark. He is talking to a tech, and techs think differently. Anyway, Russia is standing up for Durov. MFA “In connection with the news on detention of Telegram CEO Mr. Pavel Durov in France we call on #UNESCO Secretariat… Read more »
Longtimeago I heard him say this> : “The only thing they [the ruling class] care about you is what you’re thinking. They don’t care if you eat correctly, they don’t care how your living conditions are, they don’t care . . . about any (such) thing, the only thing about… Read more »
the war is lost on the ground, soon also in the economic sphere, but cognitive warfare is ongoing, and it is the battlefield where the west believes it has an advantage. Perhaps they are correct.
‘…the west believes it has an advantage.’ as russia is learning the nazis have fallen beyond redemption. empire has worked for centuries to ensure everyone has been carefully taught, carefully drugged. the vassal states are completely zombified: freedom is thinking what you are told. independent thought is criminal. sinwar doesn’t… Read more »