Digital Resistance Space #FREEDUROV
Listen the TON France activists space with @redotoken and Mahdi Farimani, founder of Onton now.
https://x.com/ton_france/status/1829202472768024800
Listen the TON France activists space with @redotoken and Mahdi Farimani, founder of Onton now.
https://x.com/ton_france/status/1829202472768024800
Our #DigitalResistance movement is spreading!
4️⃣ million people have signed the Open Letter
Recently, we received the good news that Pavel has been released from custody. This is a significant milestone, and the TON Society will continue supporting him until he is completely free.
Technology is not a crime and must never be prosecuted. #FREEDUROV✊
How many of you here are willing to stand for our digital freedom and show the power of the global Web3 community?
🐶 Resist: https://yangx.top/tgresistancebot/letter
Recently, we received the good news that Pavel has been released from custody. This is a significant milestone, and the TON Society will continue supporting him until he is completely free.
Technology is not a crime and must never be prosecuted. #FREEDUROV✊
How many of you here are willing to stand for our digital freedom and show the power of the global Web3 community?
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Are you a builder that applied via eco.ton.org/opportunities/ton-nest for the TON Nest program?
In order to join the upcoming batch starting September 2, join an online pitch session here on Telegram and present your project.
Rules:
2 min per pitch + 2 min max for questions
When:
9am UTC, Saturday, August 31st
11am UTC, Sunday, September 1st
Where:
https://yangx.top/tonsociety?livestream
What’s TON Nest?
TON Nest is an early builders support program that forms a community of founders, provides workshops and mentorship, and runs a leaderboard with rewards for the top performing projects.
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Discover the story behind the symbol of free speech and digital privacy — Resistance Dog
From defying censorship in 2011 to becoming the symbol of the #DigitalResistance movement today, find out why this iconic dog matters now more than ever.🐶
Privacy is a right, not a privilege. Free speech is the foundation of a healthy society.
Watch now!
#FREEDUROV ✊
From defying censorship in 2011 to becoming the symbol of the #DigitalResistance movement today, find out why this iconic dog matters now more than ever.
Privacy is a right, not a privilege. Free speech is the foundation of a healthy society.
Watch now!
#FREEDUROV ✊
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Who is the Resistance DOG? | The history of #DigitalResistance. Join now.
In this video, we explore the origins and significance of Digital Resistance, a movement symbolizing free speech and digital privacy. It began in 2011 when Pavel Durov refused to censor alternative opinions on his platform, leading to the creation of the…
Let's warmly congratulate our Winners that are real core of our Society, making it more live, insightful and vivid! Check the complete winners list here 👉 Click
We also congratulate all our participants, because we launching anniversary 10-th Round
Throughout the previous rounds, we grew with you, shared our ideas, expanded our knowledge about TON, made new connections and had a great time
This round will run from September 1 to September 15.
During this round, we encourage all members to continue their active participation, share valuable information, and foster a positive and inclusive atmosphere.
The top 16 performers from 6 chats will share the 800 TON prize pool. Winners of 10-th Round will receive memorable SBT-s
Participating chats:
To participate in the Path of Honor simply:
You can be disqualified if you:
Check out the detailed rules of the Path of Honor and find the list of Round 9’s winners in our Substack post ❤️
P.S: Dear winners — please send your wallet address to @TS_Rewards in order to receive the prizes
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Are you a builder that applied via eco.ton.org/opportunities/ton-nest for the TON Nest program?
In order to join the upcoming batch starting September 2, pitch at an online session here on Telegram or on X and present your project.
Rules:
2 min per pitch + 2 min max for questions
When and where:
8am UTC, Monday, September 2 👉
https://yangx.top/tonsociety?livestream
14pm UTC, Monday, September 2 👉
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ynKODXjeZAGR
What’s TON Nest?
TON Nest is an early builders support program that forms a community of founders, provides workshops and mentorship, and runs a leaderboard with rewards for the top performing projects.
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6M strong and counting — the #DigitalResistance is unstoppable!
Your overwhelming support is sending a clear message: we stand united for digital privacy and freedom of speech.
Let's aim even higher! Sign the Open Letter to urge the French authorities to #FREEDUROV ✊
Encourage your friends to join our movement. Together, we are powerful!
🆓🐶 https://yangx.top/tgresistancebot/letter
Your overwhelming support is sending a clear message: we stand united for digital privacy and freedom of speech.
Let's aim even higher! Sign the Open Letter to urge the French authorities to #FREEDUROV ✊
Encourage your friends to join our movement. Together, we are powerful!
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Live streaming from the Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul ❤️
Nick, the CEO at TBook is talking with Ekin, the founder of TON Society and Helena, the Head of Community at TON Society.
Tune in right now on Telegram, X, or Youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKguAP9hxgU
Nick, the CEO at TBook is talking with Ekin, the founder of TON Society and Helena, the Head of Community at TON Society.
Tune in right now on Telegram, X, or Youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKguAP9hxgU
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Korea Blockchain Week | TON Society and TBook Live Talk
TON Society chatting with TBook about Korea, DeFi, next activations, and activists.
TON Events Digest 🙏
Featuring TON events that are happening offline and online around the globe during this week💟
This week is the week of Korea 🇰🇷
TON is presented with a booth at the main conference and is featured across numerous side events.
🙏 Summit: Blum, Yescoin, TONX & TON Innovators 👉 Click
🙏 TON @ Korea Blockchian Week 👉 Click
🙏 TON Asia - Seoul 👉 Click
🙏 TON Discovery Day (Helena is speaking here) 👉 Click
Not only that, but there is also the EthWarsaw conference happening where TON Syndicate ambassadors are hosting a great line up of the events.
🙏 Cookie3 x NOKS x TON Poland @ ETHWarsaw 👉 Click
🙏 Teleport to TON Warsaw 👉 Click
🙏 Gaming. Redefined: Warsaw. Elympics on TON 👉 Click
TON Syndicate members are also hosting:
🙏 TON Vietnam 1st Builders' Meetup: Open the gateway for TON builders 👉 Click
🇭🇰 TON Society Hong Kong hosted an AMA with Binance
🌏 TON Society CIS are hosting a Silent SBT campaign
Featuring TON events that are happening offline and online around the globe during this week
This week is the week of Korea 🇰🇷
TON is presented with a booth at the main conference and is featured across numerous side events.
Not only that, but there is also the EthWarsaw conference happening where TON Syndicate ambassadors are hosting a great line up of the events.
TON Syndicate members are also hosting:
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❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
TON Events Digest 🙏
Featuring TON events that are happening offline and online around the globe during this week💟
Meetups by Ambassadors
TON Builders Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Meet-up 👉 Click
TON Builders x Xircus Vietnam Meet-up in Hanoi 👉 Click
TON Breakfasts
TON Breakfast in India on Sep 20th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Jaipur on Sep 19th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Surat on Sep 28th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Dublin on Sep 14th 👉 Click
Online TON Society happenings
AMA with Ambassadors about activations in August and September 👉 Click
DeFi strategies live stream with Vlad Degen, the DeFi Lead at TON Foundation
Hong Kong Community Call 👉 Click
CIS Community Call 👉 Click
TVL with Luke Belmar on Wednesday
Featuring TON events that are happening offline and online around the globe during this week
Meetups by Ambassadors
TON Builders Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Meet-up 👉 Click
TON Builders x Xircus Vietnam Meet-up in Hanoi 👉 Click
TON Breakfasts
TON Breakfast in India on Sep 20th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Jaipur on Sep 19th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Surat on Sep 28th 👉 Click
TON Breakfast in Dublin on Sep 14th 👉 Click
Online TON Society happenings
AMA with Ambassadors about activations in August and September 👉 Click
DeFi strategies live stream with Vlad Degen, the DeFi Lead at TON Foundation
Hong Kong Community Call 👉 Click
CIS Community Call 👉 Click
TVL with Luke Belmar on Wednesday
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