Pavel Durov

but you lose a lot of time and energy in the process.

So this is the only thing that is, I hope, different and will be different in this case compared to the story you told from Kafka.

That's a hard question to answer because it doesn't depend on just my actions.

I will, if anything, double down on defending freedoms because I experienced firsthand what the absence of freedom feels like, at least during these four days in police custody, when you're just stuck, unable to communicate with people that are important to you.

So I have no crystal ball that would tell me the future.

I can't say that I am pessimistic.

I think we've been able to gradually remove most of the restrictions initially imposed on my freedom last August.

But it won't be very polite, so I'm not sure.

It's good to say because you're wearing a tie.

I think the French government is losing this battle.

This battle is wrong.

resilient and defiant i become yeah and i think i have proven that in the last several months when there were attempts to use my situation being stuck here in france by approaching me and asking me to do things in other countries blocking certain channels

changing the way Telegram works and not only I refused I told the world about it and I'm going to keep telling the world about every instance any government in this case in particular the French government tries to force me do anything

And I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure.

Because if you submit to this pressure and agree with something that is fundamentally wrong and violates the rights of other people as well, you become broken inside.

You become a shell of your former self on a deep biological and spiritual level.

So I wouldn't do that.

There are probably other people in the world that would consider that.

But I don't care.

Telegram disappears to something people don't understand, including in these intelligence services or governments.