Pavel Durov

And they think I should be responsible for this.

Which again, like you said, is something that never happened in the history of this planet.

There are good reasons for that because you're sacrificing a big part of your economic growth by sending these kind of messages to the business and tech community.

So they put me in a police car and I found myself in police custody.

I spent almost four days there.

In the process, I had to answer some questions of the policemen.

They were interested in how Telegram operates.

very limited understanding, or should I say even lack of understanding, on behalf of the people who initiated this investigation against me about how technology works, how encryption works, how social media work.

I agree with you on the absurdity of this thing.

Because if this was a good faith attempt to fix an issue,

There were so many ways to reach out to Telegram, to reach out to me personally, voice their concerns, and solve any alleged problem in a way that is conventional and diplomatic.

The way every other country on this planet solves these problems, including with Telegram, and we did it dozens of times.

It's a concept that is challenging to explain to them, but I think they will learn much more about it by the end of this investigation.

That's my hope.

In any case, you're right.

I mean, if you look at Telegram, we've been fighting harmful content that is publicly distributed on our platform since 10 years ago.

Actually, since the time we launched public channels on Telegram.

And since something like eight years ago, we had daily transparency reports on how many channels related to child abuse or terrorist propaganda we're taking down daily.

Every day we've taken maybe...

would take down hundreds of them.