{"id":488539,"date":"2025-10-10T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:27:18","slug":"telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-slams-germany-uk-and-europe-says-weve-been-fed-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488539\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO Pavel Durov slams Germany, UK and Europe, says \u2018We\u2019ve been fed a lie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TelegramTelegram founder Pavel Durov Telegram CEO Pavel Durov recently warned that a \u2018dark, dystopian\u2019 world is approaching fast. Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Durov writes: \u201cI\u2019m turning 41, but I don\u2019t feel like celebrating\u201d. In the post, Durov argued that he did not feel like celebrating, arguing that \u201cour generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.\u201dDurov, who founded Telegram in 2013 as a privacy-focused messaging platform, said the original promise of the internet as a space for the free exchange of ideas was being replaced by tools of government control. He cited measures such as digital IDs in the UK, mandatory online age checks in Australia, and proposals for mass scanning of private messages in the European Union<\/a> as signs of growing restrictions.\u201cGermany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy,\u201d Durov claimed in his post.He warned that these policies risked pushing the world toward a \u201cdark, dystopian\u201d future where freedoms would vanish. \u201cOur generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms \u2014 and allowed them to be taken away,\u201d he wrote.Durov argued that society was being misled into believing its main goal was to \u201cdestroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.\u201d Without a course correction, he said, the result would be \u201cself-destruction \u2014 moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.\u201dClosing his message, Durov said he would not celebrate his birthday: \u201cI\u2019m running out of time. WE are running out of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wrote on X<\/p>\n

I\u2019m turning 41, but I don\u2019t feel like celebrating.Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast \u2014 while we\u2019re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms \u2014 and allowed them to be taken away.We\u2019ve been fed a lie.We\u2019ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we\u2019ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction \u2014 moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.So no, I\u2019m not going to celebrate today. I\u2019m running out of time. WE are running out of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telegram founder Pavel Durov Telegram CEO Pavel Durov recently warned that a \u2018dark, dystopian\u2019 world is approaching fast.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[161370,1699,60718,3082,53,18330,161369,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-dark-dystopian-future","9":"tag-european-union","10":"tag-free-internet","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-telegram","14":"tag-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350343140269911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}