He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside.

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

censorship Who gets to remove what: speech, code and money, and whether a state prosecuting a platform is regulation or something else.

Telegram The messaging platform and the positions its founder has taken about running it.