Pavel Durov make a PR only
Before Pavel Durov wrote about Russia: "We don't care if specific countries press charges against us for defending the privacy of our users. We are always ready to cut all our personal and business links to such places so that they don't have any leverage on us."
But yesterday, Pavel Durov did not send lawyers to the court, then he accepted Russian jurisdiction and said that he was going to contest this judgment. Only yesterday Durov STARTED TO FIND a lawyers. So he didn't have lawyers at the past. Thus he lead the Telegram development in St.Petersburg (Russia) without any sound judicial advises.
The point of the July request from KGB was to give information on 6 phone numbers, by Russian laws. And while Pavel Durov was the CEO at VK.com, he executed such requests and did not say that they violate the Constitution of Russia.
Also Pavel Durov sued senior tech lead for $ 1.7 million for disclosure of Telegram job title on Facebook. And today Durov's representatives did not come to this court hearing too. So, Durov deals only with PR, he does not care about freedom of speech, privacy or real security. Maybe he wants to sell the project.
https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-about-its-connections-to-the-kremlin
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