In a May vii post, Telegram founder Pavel Durov chosen the The states a "police state" and discouraged entrepreneurs from moving their businesses to Silicon Valley.

Perhaps wearied by the legal battles around Telegram's beleaguered token offering, Durov berated the U.S. in his latest post "vii Reasons Not To Move To The [Silicon] Valley." In the post, he criticized information technology both as a place to do business and a identify to live. The post was only announced in Durov's Russian language Telegram channel and was published in Russian.

Telegram was pressured by FBI

The number ane reason, in Durov's opinion, is that the U.S. is a police force state. He is basing this conclusion on the fact the U.South. has the highest number of people incarcerated in the world. He besides mentioned that in 2022, during its trip to San Francisco, the Telegram team was pressured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Durov went on to list a number of other factors that, in his opinion, make life in the U.S. unattractive — a poor healthcare system, the lack of cultural life, mediocre school didactics, high taxes, high software development costs and the lackluster market perspective for the twenty-first century.

His terminal discussion of advice to entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe was to examine other alternatives. According to Durov:

"Today, India, not the U.S. presents the largest open up cyberspace-market in the globe".

This diatribe came on the aforementioned mean solar day every bit the Free TON Community launched its blockchain. Allegedly, neither Telegram nor Durov are involved in the project. Information technology also came weeks after the announcement that Russia may lift its three-twelvemonth Telegram ban.