His Telegram messenger is experiencing the most pressure from Apple and Google, which he claims are capable of censoring everything that is accessible via mobile phones, company founder Pavel Durov said in an April 16 interview. with American television journalist Tucker Carlson.
Both American companies, he said, gave “very clear” They believe that Telegram will be expelled from the application stores if it does not agree to follow the rules they impose.
“I would say that the biggest pressure on Telegram is not coming from governments, but from Apple and Google. “When it comes to free speech, these two platforms can essentially censor everything you can read and access on your smartphone.”Durov said in an interview.
For his Telegram, the organizer believes that such a threat “it’s no small thing”since it can deprive “a significant proportion of the world’s population has access to a valuable tool that they use every day”.
Durov emphasized that Apple and Google “Not very willing to give in” In terms of compliance with the rules established by them, certain points are completely political in nature.
Recall that the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, said that the messenger attracted a lot of attention from the American intelligence services, which tried to recruit his technical employee and visited him.
“The FBI and security services are paying too much attention to us… There was an attempt behind my back to secretly recruit my engineer as cybersecurity agents.”he said.
Durov explained that he knew this from his subordinate’s story and thought that American intelligence services were trying to gain access to Telegram’s systems and databases.
A businessman of Russian origin claims that upon his arrival in the United States he was greeted by a couple of FBI agents with questions.
“I was having breakfast one morning at 9:00 and the FBI showed up at the house I was renting. It was incredible. “I thought we were attracting too much attention here.”– said Durov.
The agents, he said, wanted to ask more about Telegram and, probably, “build relationships” to have more access to control the messenger.
Telegram’s monthly audience today is 900 million people.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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