Pavel Durov, the founder of messaging platform Telegram, has accused Russia of branding him a terrorist for refusing government demands for mass surveillance and censorship, issuing his first personal response after Moscow added him to its official register of terrorists and extremists.
'Russia has designated me as a "terrorist" for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram,' Durov wrote on Thursday. 'Under Russian law, I'm banned from "publishing information on the Internet". Russian officials have clearly got confused about who can ban whom from the Internet.'
