PANews reported on August 27 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on Warpcast, “I saw zero non-Westerners defending the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, but quite a few Westerners. I definitely don’t want to say they don’t exist (after all, my timeline is as biased as anyone else’s), it’s just that this is my sample so far. In my opinion, this is another example of the decoupling of liberalism and Occidentalism that Macaes Bruno often talks about.”