The following is a chain of events that transpired in the period from August 24, 2024 till present. Everything stated below is a recollection of those events.
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Saturday, August 24, Telegram and the founder was arrested in France upon arriving on his private jet at Le Bourget Airport near Paris. The event of this magnitude has sent ripples all over nearly all area of the Digital and, certainly, the TON community (which we are proudly a part of) could not stand idly and watch from the sidelines.
In a tidal wave of public statements more and more influencers and active figures in TG, TON and Digital Community came forth in strong condemnation of Pavel’s arrest. GTM wasn’t the exception and after the initial smoke has cleared, we’ve issued a
statement, where we committed to join the movement, aptly named
#FREEDUROV․
We joined the vanguard that created a petition to free Durov, and we reposted
the message, added signing the petition to one of the daily tasks and were diligently spreading awareness of the cause.
And we also have been encouraging our audience to engage in “meme wars”, a form of resistance through memes, a peaceful protest where people express their concerns through posting memes in the accounts of prominent figures.
That day we went to bed with a sense of “it’s not much but it’s an honest job!”. What happened next was surprising to say the least.
Below, the events are listed in the chronological order according to our best recollection.
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Wednesday, August 28. The clicker got hit with a DDoS attack. The game was down and it was down hard. Even though at the time there was a massive update in the works, and some technical issues were inevitable, it didn’t look like just any regular event; something was very fishy.
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Thursday, August 29. GTM Telegram Channel stopped appearing in search results. According to the statistics the last person to join the channel through a search did so on August, 28. It started to look like the channel was shadow banned.
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Saturday, August 31 – Sunday, September 2.
Our bot gets hacked, and the users get the
following message
The appropriate warning is issued almost instantly. This again felt kind of weird to say the least, because just around a couple of days ago the server had been moved elsewhere, and the security there was top-notch with an extra emphasis on DDoS protection. So naturally we blamed one of our marketing partners, like maybe they turned and decided to pull a lil scam, because what else would it be,
a coordinated attack by the French Government?!
Weeelll…… lemme spin the yarn
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