Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Warns About Losing Free Speech Battle
October 11, 2025 | Sundance1/2
The moment we realize the technological systems have begun to decide who speaks and who is silenced, we can look around and see the cage bars; hopefully, before the door closes. It is from that moment when we value ‘free speech.’
Pavel Durov is a man of strong strategic focus and self-discipline. The company he created, Telegram, is at the forefront of an information control war, and arguably Durov is one of a small group who grasp the dynamic.
PAVEL DUROV – “I’m turning 41, but I don’t 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 — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve 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’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.” (source)
Those who control information have now perfected the art of algorithmic control, using advance Artificial Intelligence as a tool to control the flow of information.
The control algorithms are learning the dark art of manipulative content operations. As Elon Musk famously ==said of his intentions, “the freedom of speech, not the freedom of reach.”=
What the Larry Ellison (Oracle) mindset believes, is that social opinions, and ultimately public policy, can be changed simply by controlling the information inputs. This was the long-game strategy behind Larry Ellison’s like-minded fellow travelers taking action to acquire TikTok, and his son David Ellison simultaneously taking control of Paramount (CBS).
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/10/11/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-warns-about-losing-free-speech-battle/
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