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Published · transcript-backedPavel Durov: commitment
1 Oct 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
“We designed a system in a way that’s impossible. It’ll require us to change the system and we won’t do that because we made a promise to our users.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Pavel Durov
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 1 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Do you see in the future a possible scenario where you might share user private messages with governments or with intelligence agencies? No. We designed a system in a way that’s impossible. It’ll require us to change the system and we won’t do that because we made a promise to our users. We would rather shut Telegram down in a certain country than do that. So that’s one of the principles you operate under is you go into protect user privacy.…
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