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Telegram would rather shut down in a country than change its system to let anyone read users' messages, because it promised its users it would not.

Drawn from what Pavel Durov said

SubjectsprivacyTelegram
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privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

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

What Pavel Durov actually said

  1. Pavel Durov Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK
    No. We designed a system in a way that's impossible. It'll require us to change the system and we won't do that because we made a promise to our users. We would rather shut Telegram down in a certain country than do that.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:48:39 plays here

    ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com

    30 Sept 2025 · video · 4h 34m · spoken · official transcript

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