One meta-note on the situation, is that in my timeline I have seen exactly zero non-western people defending Durov's arrest, but quite a few western people.

Definitely don't want to say that they don't exist (after all, my timeline is biased just like anyone's), just this is what my sample is so far.

IMO this is another example of the decoupling of liberalism and westernism that https://x.com/MacaesBruno often talks about.

i don’t want to make assumptions but this is probably because you follow more western people. 

and also from personal observation non - western people focus more on problems that directly affect them.

Durov's arrest directly affects us because everyone I know keeps their everything on Telegram! We use it as an archive. Also everyone I know from the cryoto community participate in ton network airdrops.