Russia’s most famous internet entrepreneur, Pavel Durov, has criticized the United States for putting pressure on Chinese-owned social network TikTok and threatening the video-sharing service with a complete ban.
Durov, who is the founder of both the social network VK and the messenger platform Telegram, believes that threats to ban TikTok could set a dangerous precedent legitimizing “an extortion tactic previously employed only by authoritarian regimes,” and ultimately leading to the downfall of the internet as an open global network.
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