In an interview, Telegram founder Pavel Durov says that Google and Apple provide the biggest barriers to free speech online.
In an interview, the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov says that it isn’t governments that are the biggest barriers to free speech on the internet, instead it is the Big Tech corporations.
In a rare in-depth interview, Durov spoke with controversial American right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, and whatever you may think about Carlson and his opinions, the focus of the conversation was on Durov, his Telegram, and what he thinks about the social media and tech industry. “I would say the largest pressure towards Telegram is not coming from governments. It’s coming from Apple and Google,” said Durov.
If you think about it, almost everyone in the world who has ever downloaded a smartphone app has done so through these two corporations, and that is an enormous amount of power, so much so that governments are trying toDurov says that these companies have general guidelines that are “difficult to disagree” with, such as that there must be no violence, discrimination or child sexual abuse material on platforms distributed through their stores, but Telegram has had to take content down because of...
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