Telegram’s Pavel Durov Once Lauded Bitcoin—So Why’s He Warning Of A ‘Dark Dystopian World’ On His Birthday?
Telegram (CRYPTO: TON) founder Pavel Durov marked his 41st birthday with a somber message warning that governments are eroding online freedom through surveillance and censorship.
Durov Warns Of ‘Dark, Dystopian’ Shift
In a post shared on his official Telegram channel, Durov said he “doesn’t feel like celebrating” as the world moves toward what he described as a “dark, dystopian” reality.
He criticized Western nations, including the U.K., Australia, and European Union members, for introducing laws that require online age checks, mass scanning of private messages, and digital identification systems.
Durov accused democratic countries of “turning the free exchange of information into a tool of control” and warned that “our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.”
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