The regime also appears to be cranking up the public pressure on Durov to police content it doesn't like — such as the now suspended @amadnews channel — though the Telegram founder has been quick to point to counter-examples where the platform has resisted authorities' demands.
He spoke publicly of using firearms and dynamite to resist authority.
"You're dealing with the problem of the attitude of teenagers to resist authority," he said.
But in the meantime a judge has sentenced Mr Kabir to three months in prison for "resisting authority".
He said that Bryant was prone to "consuming anger," and was always resisting authority figures in his life.
I think that my Catholic upbringing and my Irish revolutionary background tend to make me resist authority — i.e., the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
Q. Define that. A. Resisting authority figures, acting out, peroxiding my hair in the front along with a group of other semi-juvenile delinquents.
In what one of the teachers calls their "molting age," the ninth graders resist authority, adore their friends and insist, as teenagers will, on bringing the secrets of their elders to light — no matter what the cost.
At school, Nina would fall asleep in class or be disruptive and resist authority -- she refused to open her book or salute the flag and pounded the computer keys.
