Pavel Durov - #TONUSDT owner
I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet that our parents built for us.
What was once the promise of free exchange of information is becoming the ultimate tool of control.
Previously free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age verifications (Australia) and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany persecutes anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is jailing thousands for their tweets. France criminally investigates technology leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is quickly approaching — while we are asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We have been fed a lie.
We have been led to believe that the greatest struggle of our generation is to destroy everything our ancestors left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market and freedom of expression.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we have set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic and, ultimately, biological.
So no, I'm not celebrating today. I'm running out of time. We are running out of time.