Dystopian nightmare: Russian tech billionaire Durov slams America's Apple & Google for censoring information on the internet

Two of the international’s biggest corporations, American tech giants Apple and Google, are actively censoring information disseminated to the public. That’s in line with Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the Telegram Messenger app.
Two of the world’s largest corporations, American tech giants Apple and Google, are actively censoring information disseminated to the public. That’s according to Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the Telegram Messenger app.Original article
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