Pavel Durov

it always results in the state accumulating more power at the expense of the individual.

And then where does it stop?

You know, we humans are not very good at finding the right balance.

And in this case, the right balance between chaos and order, between freedom and structure.

And the government is not some abstract notion.

The government consists of people.

And these people have goals.

They would naturally be inclined to increase their level of influence, to have more subordinates, to have more resources.

And that's how you end up in an endless loop of ever-increasing taxes, ever-increasing regulations.

which ultimately suffocates free market, free enterprise, and free speech.

So you do want to have very, very strict limitations on the extent the government can increase its powers at the expense of citizens.

Ironically, you don't have those limitations.

You're supposed, in all countries, which are considered to be free,

It's supposed to be the constitution that protects everybody.

But interestingly, it doesn't work always this way.

They are able to find very tricky phrasings in order to cover out exceptions.

And then the exception becomes the rule.

I arrived in France last year in August, just for a short two-day trip.

And then I see a dozen of armed policemen greeting me and asking me to follow them.

Then I realized they're being serious and they're accusing me of all possible crimes that the users of Telegram have allegedly committed with some users.