Elon Musk Backs Telegram’s Pavel Durov for Upholding Free Speech

Elon Musk shares the previous interview of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov where he reveals how the US government tries to threaten the application to spy on it. The CEO of Telegram enjoys the support of Elon Musk who has even defended him as somebody who does not cave to government censorship. 

Sophisticated observers also reassured that other similar platforms such as Elon Musk’s X and Rumble also run the risk of being targeted by the government in the future. Even Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski also raised alarm about the same.

After the founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov was detained in France on Saturday, Elon Musk supported Durov for maintaining the freedom of speech and did not surrender to the government’s pressure on censorship. Of course, free speech remains one Musk’s major priorities and it is what he has been advocating for quite some time now; which is why this acquisition happened back in October 2022.

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Elon Musk’s Assistance to Founder of Telegram

Several industry heavyweights have taken to stand for Telegram Chief Pavel Durov in the wake of his arrest and charging him of permitting unlawful and unlawful conduct through the Telegram texting application. 

The arrest did lead to the fall in the Toncoin price which is currently at 16% lower as per the latest reports. 33% down at $5. 68 people as of the date of this press while the new figure is 69 as of this press.

Elon Musk also posted an interview that Durov did with American journalist Tucker Carlson where in detail Durov talked about the threats that the US Government and the FBI used to blackmail one of the engineers of Telegram and give them backstage access to the messaging app. 

He stated that the officials were pressuring the engineer to combine some of the open-source features into the Telegram and they would get untraceable control in return.

However, while such industry tech magnates as Elon Musk have been backing Durov, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has remained noncommittal on this issue. Musk also took a shot at Zuckerberg after one user asked Musk why they weren’t police arresting Zuck for hosting child accounts on the Instagram platform. Responding to it, Musk wrote: Responding to it, Musk wrote:

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Ethereum’s Creator Vitalik Buterin endorsed Durov

Even Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has also stood for the Telegram CEO stating that he had once banned Durov for not taking the option of encryption seriously. However, he pointed out that the charges on Durov are unmoderated and “looks very bad and worrying for the future of software and comms freedom in Europe”.

Another user on the X platform also expressed his/her feeling that while some of the most popular messaging apps include such features as end-to-end encryption like WhatsApp and iMessage, they still offer backdoor access to the government. Responding to this, Vitalik said: 

“That is why there is a need for open source code and checking of formally stated security requirements”. Ethereum’s creator Vitalik Buterin has been an advocate for decentralization and has elaborated on how Ethereum is already doing a lot to move in that direction.

Some market analysts also believe that the next targets for government agencies include Elon Musk’s X and the video platform called Rumble. The CEO of Rumble, an online video platform, Chris Pavlovski said that France is now beyond the Red line and he has made the decision to leave Europe. In a message on the X platform, Pavlovski wrote: In a message on the X platform, Pavlovski wrote: