VKontakte was created to empower free speech, but it has instead enabled government censorship and arrests.
in April, saying later he was pressured to sell his 12 percent stake in the business. After VK’s two other cofounders also sold their shares, the platform ended up under full control of the Mail.ru group, an internet business majority-owned by Usmanov. The British government, which sanctioned Usmanov in March,But Durov did not walk away empty-handed; it's estimated he received aroundas part of the deal.
The attitude to government requests changed too. When Durov was still in charge in December 2012, a member of a pro-Alexei Navalny group on the platformmessages exchanged with him. “Recently the FSB asked us to close opposition groups, like yours,” Durov claimed in the message.“By principle we don't do that. We don't know yet how it will end for us.” The same day, Durov tweeted what he called his “official response” to FSB requests: aof a dog wearing a hoodie with its tongue out.
But that philosophy became more controversial as new laws became more extreme, such as the 2016 Yarovaya lawforced internet companies including VK to store messages, posts, images, video, and metadata for up to six months. Since Rogozov made the decision that VK would be a compliant company, the number of laws it has to abide by has snowballed.
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