🧭Telegram Under Pressure:
What’s Happening and Why It Matters for the Future of the Internet
Telegram and TON are more than just a messenger and a blockchain. Their infrastructure represents a new digital reality: one where users (not governments) control data, transactions, and freedom of expression. But 2024–2025, this came under a large-scale attack. It all started in France 🇫🇷
🟡August 2024: Pavel Durov detained at a Paris airport. The official reason: "cybercrime investigation." French President Emmanuel Macron insists it’s "not political." Still, the arrest of the founder of the world’s largest independent messenger, at the request of prosecutors after a “long investigation,” sends a strong signal.
🟡March 2025: the court allows Durov to leave France for two weeks. He returns to Dubai.
🟡May 2025: Durov reveals that France demanded Telegram block political channels in Romania ahead of elections. He refused.
«We didn’t block protesters in Iran, Belarus, or Russia — and we won’t start in Europe.» - Pavel Durov.
🟡France’s Foreign Ministry dismissed Durov’s claims as fake and cited concerns over foreign interference. In response, Durov publicly stated that Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence (DGSE), asked him to remove "conservative voices" and impose censorship on certain channels.
Elon Musk replied to Durov’s tweet: “Listen, listen”, showing support for Telegram in its dispute with France.
🟡France blocked Durov from traveling to the U.S. (to meet with investors) and to Oslo (for a human rights conference). He participated in the Oslo Freedom Forum remotely. The Human Rights Foundation called the travel ban “a blow to digital rights.”
🟡Vietnam demanded Telegram hand over user data and remove opposition channels.
Telegram refused. Vietnam ordered a ban on Telegram until June 2, officially citing the platform’s refusal to cooperate and remove “anti-government content.”
All the accusations - from terrorism to extremism - boil down to one thing: governments trying to control Telegram. But the platform refuses to become a censorship tool.
Key risks based on current events:
- Potential Telegram bans in the EU and allied countries
- Sanctions on TON and the TON Foundation infrastructure
- Media campaigns portraying Telegram as a “threat to democracy”
- Political pressure on partners and advertisers
But if Telegram holds its ground, it will set a historic precedent for Web3. Proving that a global platform can resist state control and preserve freedom of communication.
Every move against Telegram also affects TON - the blockchain is deeply embedded in the messenger’s ecosystem. But this is also its strength: if Telegram is blocked, TON infrastructure (Proxy, DNS, Storage) could preserve communication freedom.
This is a clash between governments and Web3.
Between centralized control and decentralization.
Between open information in the future and information warfare in the present.
Not just a dispute with France or Vietnam.
This is a front in the global struggle for freedom of information.
A battle for the right to roam online freely: without surveillance, censorship, or control.
Your dissident
@TonPost
