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Originally Posted by deltav
Yup, that's sort of what we're discussing, it seemed like there was something else going on. I'm curious, you should enlighten us.
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It was never a secret here for years that (vkontakte) had 1000's of CP-related communities (groups) and countless number of such video materials. They even didn't try to hide anything. It was open to anyone and was spreading like a virus. It was lasted for years and was a subject of the claims in Russian media. Even a lazy public person here didn't mention that. And what Durov did after all those public accusations? Did he start a cleaning? No. He just "proudly" added a "porn king" status to his personal page (to be honest, the real cleaning has started later, but only just about a year or two ago), because he didn't want to do any "censorship" (sounds familiar, right?) This story was widely discussed in Russian media a few years ago (e.g.
http://www.rosbalt.ru/style/2009/08/07/661536.html,
http://www.dp.ru/a/2011/05/03/Pavel_...argumentirova/,
http://sobesednik.ru/scandals/201207...detskogo-porno,
http://мызд&...E%D0%BD%D1%82/ etс), but course the "independent" Western channels just forgot or completely missed it...
Durov has never been a fighter against the regime (on the contrary he was supporting pro-Putin's groups in vkontakte during the mass protests in 2011). He was using all the scandals to make vkontakte more and more popular. But after moving to a .com zone, his network is going to lose its main advantage -
PIRACY. He knows that now it will be hard to host all the copyrighted content there and get away with that. He knew that now vkontakte will lose most of its members or he will lose a freedom...
Just a month ago, Durov has published his famous
Seven reasons not to emigrate from Russia (20 days before his "1st April joke"), and now he said that he just can't work here? Do you servilely thing he is for real and he is a victim of Putin's regime?