Facebook, for the vast majority of Westerners, has become a big part of the everyday life. With more than a billion users, Mr. Zuckerberg is safe to say mission accomplished. If he were to suddenly give up his CEO title in the company, take his things and fly away far from America, the situation would be quite alarming... As reported on April 23rd, this is exactly what happened to the founder of Russian's biggest social network. VKontakte, or VK, is one of the runner-ups to Facebook in the social networking business, with the majority of its members being in Russia. Feeling pressures from the Russian authority, Pavel Durov abandoned his post and flew the country. As a final act of defiance, he posted online documents from the secret services urging him to provide personal details to them about VK users. The lost of Durov could be big for VK and the freedom of speech on social medias in Russia, since the next CEO might not have the same motivation to resist to Kremlin that Durov had. This happened just after the Russian government passed a bill requiring all Russian social networking medias to keep all information on their members for at least half a years. When a country starts suppressing liberties from its own citizens, it never announces good things... Let's just hope that Durov's story will have raised eyebrows in the Russian community...
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Yahoo! News
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