Zero trust does not mean government pressure is okay

he is not pro-Putin, the Telegram team was forced to leave and it has been blocked several times in Russia.

Durov is about as anti-Putin and russia in general as one can get. He go fucked hard in russia and has been going extremely hard against the censorship in russia. TG is one of the few chat apps that can avoid russia's suppression measures, when everything else working over internet fails.