Geopolitics

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.

Difficult to infer from someone defending an arrest on social media. I don’t think he should’ve been arrested. But that’s a small issue. He will figure it out.

We don’t seem to understand the gravity of what can happen on social media: it can include child pornography and child trafficking. 

This is real world harm. We have a responsibility as a collective to focus on solving the problem instead of dodging responsibility to reduce overhead in the name of “free speech.”