Durov spoke about the pressure of Apple and Google on Telegram

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WASHINGTON, April 17 Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that his messenger is experiencing the greatest pressure not from governments, but from Apple and Google, which, according to him, are capable of censoring everything that is accessible via mobile phones.
Both American companies, he said, have made it “very clear” that Telegram will be excluded from app stores if it does not adhere to the rules they have defined.

«I would say that the biggest pressure on Telegram is not from governments, but from Apple and Google. When it comes to free speech, these two platforms are able to essentially censor everything you can read, to what you can access on your smartphone,” Durov said in an interview with American television journalist Tucker Carlson.

For Telegram, he said, such a threat is “not a small thing,” since it could deprive “a significant portion of the world’s population of access to a valuable tool that they use every day.” Durov noted that Apple and Google are “not too inclined to compromise” in matters of compliance with the rules they set, some of which are political in nature.