The intimidation of the Russian authorities to the Telegram messenger is not even interesting in that they had the exact opposite result - a sharp surge of users' interest in a tool that they try to control. This is just an example of the fact that Russian authorities can not manage the country as before. Do not work threats and prohibitions - lead to the opposite result. Other interesting. The Russian authorities do not tolerate two phenomena - private ownership and technological progress. These are his two worst enemies.
In the case of Telegram (which the hands of the Russian authorities can not afford to get their hands on short), these two phenomena evolved and came out on the side of citizens - in defense of the intrusion into their private lives of special services. As soon as the Russian authorities are faced with a situation where his greedy hands can not reach out to private property and when technological progress puts an obstacle to his harassment - it is powerless.
Hence the main goal for the future of the Russian system is the unconditional nature of private property, the creation for this purpose of institutions that will not allow the authorities to make it conditional. The main instrument is the separation of powers. The second - a competitive order, which in the decisive degree forms the demand for new technologies.
It is not social populism at all that is the way for our country to get out of backwardness, but a rational rate for the absolute right of private property, for its more even distribution than today, and for technological progress - a competitive order.
In the case of Telegram, the Russian authorities politely slammed the door to the private life of citizens. Visitors in uniform are refused. The strike took place, the meeting continues.
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