Pavel Durov
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It won't affect me.
It won't affect my lifestyle in any way.
I will still be doing my push-ups, you know.
So you don't like encryption.
You don't like privacy.
You think you should ban encryption in your country.
like the European Union is trying to do now for all the member states, well, go ahead and do that.
We'll just quit this market.
We won't operate there.
It's not that important.
They all think that somehow we profit from their citizens.
And the only goal tech companies have is extracting revenues.
And it's true.
Most tech companies are like this.
But there are projects like Telegram, which are a bit different.
And I'm not sure they realize that.
There are no shareholders.
Which is quite unique.
And this allows us to operate the way we operate.
To build this project and maintain it based on certain fundamental principles.