Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Warns About Losing Free Speech Battle
The moment we realize the technological systems have begun to decide who speaks and who is silenced, we can look around and see the cage bars; hopefully, before the door closes. It is from that moment when we value ‘free speech.’
Pavel Durov is a man of strong strategic focus and self-discipline. The company he created, Telegram, is at the forefront of an information control war, and arguably Durov is one of a small group who grasp the dynamic.
PAVEL DUROV – “I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.” (source)
Those who control information have now perfected the art of algorithmic control, using advance Artificial Intelligence as a tool to control the flow of information.
The control algorithms are learning the dark art of manipulative content operations. As Elon Musk famously said of his intentions, “the freedom of speech, not the freedom of reach.”
What the Larry Ellison (Oracle) mindset believes, is that social opinions, and ultimately public policy, can be changed simply by controlling the information inputs. This was the long-game strategy behind Larry Ellison’s like-minded fellow travelers taking action to acquire TikTok, and his son David Ellison simultaneously taking control of Paramount (CBS).
The background context is the beta test that Ellison’s protege’ Elon Musk provided with Twitter.
What comes next is exactly what Pavel Durov is warning about.
Platform content is controlled using the algorithm to apply benefit for the correct message and isolation for the incorrect message.
Content creators instantly recognize which content message is gaining benefit (likes, engagement), and which content messages result in punishment, isolation, for wrong or devalued thinking. Content creators immediately begin to modify their content to enhance the benefit and avoid the consequence.
This approach creates a system of self-governed filtration. The control officers don’t need to censor; the censorship becomes organic. By controlling the reach, the algorithm controls the speech. Nothing is organic.
Government entities don’t even need to tell platform providers to ‘blacklist’ or delete certain information any longer; they can simply tell their tech partners what information is against their interests, then let algorithms inside the machines go to work on identifying that information for isolation. Conversely, the information beneficial to their interests can be enhanced and amplified in what looks like an organic spread.
That’s what Elon Musk tested on the X platform; that’s exactly what exists today, and that’s also what is being launched by Larry Ellison on TikTok and David Ellison on CBS.
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