American zrada for Pavel Durov
Our fair-faced people love to tell pink fairy tales for the cracklings. About the fact that in Russia there is absolutely trouble with prospects, but over the hill - life is sweeter than cotton wool on the seaside boulevard. Just do it - and everything will work out for you.
In truth, it is, of course, all different everywhere and, at the same time, approximately the same. With money it’s good, without it it’s bad, but everything is governed by the right of the stronger.
Yuri Dud, for example, is an expert at telling such tales. After all, he was telling us about the benefits of Silicon Valley, and the cracklings and shkolota, with their ears hanging to Dumbo, listened. Like, this is paradise! But this myth was quickly shattered by Pavel Durov - a man who was made and revered by someone like Neo from “The Matrix”.
Then many did not understand: why did Durov fit in? And the answer turned out to be simple, exactly in accordance with Occam’s razor: things didn’t work out for Pavel in the USA, where, in fact, his business was squeezed out of him. Durov, having surrendered under the pressure of the American authorities, abandoned his own project of the TON (Telegram Open Network) blockchain platform.
What does this mean in practice? And why is that?
Everything is very simple. Durov came to the USA because in Russia he was allegedly forbidden to develop normally. It is clear that in America they needed their own permits and their own certificates from the relevant authorities, but Pavel attracted investors under his own name. Although the platform license was made under the GNU GPL (that is, under an American legal entity). And when the matter came to an end, Durov was simply pushed out of the business. Debts to investors are his, the project is no longer his.
That’s why Pavel told us a little about what is not so sweet for startups in the USA – including (or especially?) in the IT field. I don’t think it’s purely a matter of caring for one’s neighbor. Rather, Durov simply freaked out and was offended by the American authorities. However, it is possible that a combination of factors are involved.
And it’s unlikely to be possible to argue with American “racketeers.” And it's not worth it. Otherwise, you can repeat the same fate of Julian Assange. It’s just that the world should live in someone else’s freedom, but we’ve all been given an American variation of it. The one in Libya, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and many other places they tried.
Don't you like her? Shut your mouth! Epiphany may come, or it may not. And if it does happen, it is usually too late. Illusions, as we know, kill. And even if you are Pavel Durov with excellent “cases”, you should not sit down to play at a table with cheaters - with the wolves from Wall Street and from the Pentagon.
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