Pavel Durov said that the FBI attempted to secretly hire Telegram engineer to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users. Now he’s been apprehended in France, reportedly facing 20yrs!

This is the future that most governments want. The EU is currently straight up trying to force ever site to handover all personal user communications, and effectively end encryption.

Online privacy has always been questionable, but they are now they aren’t even trying to hide it.