Sujet : Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-)
De : physfitfreak (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Physfitfreak)
Groupes : sci.physics comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 05. May 2024, 06:52:12
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Tonight I tried for the second time (after about a year) to get my hands on an English or Persian copy of Pavel Durov's book (The Durov Code), and failed. The number one reason for it is that free venues are mostly provided by Russians, and in this particular case, Russians do not want his book shared. Not to preserve his rights to sell them, mind you, but because they consider him sort of an enemy to Russia. Mainly because he didn't share the identities of Ukrainian anti-Russia telegram users, when asked by security services of his country; and in return, Russia saw that as treason. Like putting your business first, and your own country second. Russians expect the opposite from their citizens.
But Durov's telegram was not just a business for Durov. It was also a promise to all telegram users. He had deliberately created it with features to provide anonymity. And after all was done, now he had to keep that important promise cause thousands of Ukrainian user's lives depended on it in addition to just the ideas for which he had created telegram for the whole world.
Which one should've been more important to him? His ideas which had materialized, or his country?
He thought about it and decided that he would keep his promise. So he became an outcast and was, in virtue, kicked out of Russia. And for exactly same reasons Nazis also don't like him.
He is presently a citizen of Emarate. No doubt he doesn't have slightest problem there about the language. He's a linguist. His background is in linguistics. He knows many languages and has had a talent for it from childhood.
They say there's no English version of the book. I say, "bullshit." Either he wrote it also in English (original is in Russian and free to download), and perhaps even in two or three other languages too, or it must've gotten translated by someone somewhere into English. But I can't find it. Nowhere to be found. And this is really strange. Why Durov, himself, hasn't provided it in the English language; if blocked everywhere by Nazis, then via telegram itself? I can't understand that.
What about the world minus Russia and the Nazis; i.e. the Modern Humans? Anything and anywhere whose people aren't cro-magnon, and therefore not susceptible to such idiocies to resent him?
Well, I'm not a linguist to benefit from that. Hehe :) Yes, Chinese and Indians have by all probability translated and read that book. They may even be providing them free for download, like its Russian version is. But that won't help me because there's no Persian translation of it yet.
Iranians heavily use Telegram! But Iran's government is pissed by that app, because it had a major role in a few disturbances that Nazis had planned and paid for in Iran, using the youth and inexperienced as well as the 5th column (Bahais and Jews and some Kords) to encourage them to create trouble and damages to government establishments. So, I think, the government there might have had a hand in preventing its translation. It's been out more than 10 years... no chance it wouldn't get translated, otherwise. So that venue is also closed for me.
What's remained is, obtaining it via torrent apps. Torrent apps work based on popularity, not content. So no chance there either. You won't find it. You find about 2000 recent Bollywood films, and another thousand Hollywood films to download. Some Microsoft, Matlab, etc apps as well to pirate. And porn crap. Nothing else is there, nothing about and by Durov anyway.
No sign of it in the land of the proven Nazis. Amazon, EBay. Not a sign. So nobody probably even has it to sell it on eBay. I must not be the only one.
But what about Telegram itself? A pdf form of it could easily be provided via telegram channels with no authority able to stop it. I can't find it there either. There are sure telegram channels named "The Durov Code" and similar names taken from that title, but no sign of the book in any of them. At least, simple searches doesn't find any. The only reason I can bring for that which would make any sense, is that you wouldn't use Durov's own app to pirate his own book. It's just not right, unless Durov himself offer it. If that's the case, I haven't found it yet.