[kgeist]

Well, Russia has basically never had freedom of speech, except for a brief period in the 1990s, so it contributes nothing to his thesis in the tweet that "once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures."

[yatsyk]

If he had written that Western Europe is moving toward China’s model, I would have had no questions about his tweet and would have fully supported it.

As I understand it, Durov doesn’t agree with your statement — you can check point 5 of his 2014 manifesto [1]

[1] https://globalvoices.org/2014/03/13/pavel-durovs-seven-reaso...

[kgeist]

>2014

That was before the Kremlin fully launched its repressive measures against the Internet, and before he was forced to leave Russia for refusing to cooperate with the authorities.

[sam_lowry_]

Already after 2012 street protests in Moscow.

[jrochkind1]

Makes it weird that he's choosing to live in a never-free country maybe though (as an alternative to living in the other seldom-free country in which he is a citizen).