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BREAKING: Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, arrested in France and facing 20 years in jail for refusing to censor his platform. The charges include terrorism, money laundering, and more—looks like they’re targeting anyone who defends free speech. pic.twitter.com/vK4u6ae1Gk
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) August 24, 2024
Russia sent a note demanding access to Durov
The Russian Embassy in France has asked the authorities to clarify the reasons for the detention of Telegram founder Pavel Durov.
Russia has sent a note to France demanding consular access to Pavel Durov, who was detained in Paris,… pic.twitter.com/mx1OcDaMl0
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 25, 2024
Durov was arrested because his platform might be used by drug dealers and terrorists.
Meanwhile, the US government is funding the single biggest Genocide in living history, and a proxy war in Ukraime that threatens to start WW3 in Europe
But no one is arrested in Washington? pic.twitter.com/x6n7QHAeYX
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 25, 2024
Democracy will under no circumstances tolerate freedom of speech. It’s totally against the law in Western countries to allow any form of freedom of speech, even if you don’t know about it.
The arrest of the Telegram CEO comes after the British said they wanted the US to extradite Elon Musk for allowing too much freedom of speech on Twitter.
These are the same people who say they have to go to war with much or most of the world in order to force “freedom” on them. Of course, when they talk about forcing freedom on people, they are not talking about freedom of speech or freedom of conscience or any of the classic types of freedom. They are talking exclusively about gay anal.
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody, three sources told Reuters.
The arrest of the 39-year-old technology billionaire prompted on Sunday a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack.
There was no official confirmation from France of the arrest, but two French police sources and one Russian source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Durov was arrested shortly after arriving at Le Bourget airport on a private jet from Azerbaijan.
One of the two French police sources said that ahead of the jet’s arrival, police had spotted he was on the passenger list and moved to arrest him because he was the subject of an arrest warrant in France.
“Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act — its moderation is within industry standards and constantly improving,” Telegram said in a statement on the arrest.
“Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe,” it said. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”
Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a third French police source said.
Russian lawmaker Maria Butina, who spent 15 months in U.S. prison for acting as an unregistered Russian agent, said Durov “is a political prisoner – a victim of a witch-hunt by the West.” Durov’s arrest led news bulletins in Russia.
Telegram, based in Dubai, was founded by Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he has sold.
The encrypted application, with close to 1 billion users, is particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union. It is ranked as one of the major social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and WeChat.
It’s more popular than Twitter, that’s for sure.
And this Russian guy is personally responsible for what a billion people say on his app.
Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member,… https://t.co/F83E9GbNHC
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 24, 2024
It is not even possible to moderate an app that size.
Telegram already removes terrorist content when they can find it. But this isn’t about terrorist content. It is presumably mostly about allowing videos of what is going on in Gaza. They will probably say it is about allowing “hate speech,” but he’s had French citizenship and been in and out of France for years.
The West is moving to ban TikTok because they allow videos from Gaza (the US Congress was clear about that). Now France has kidnapped the CEO of Telegram to attempt to force them to remove content that Jews don’t like.
Russia and Dubai are not democracies, and they allow Telegram, allow the CEO to move freely without molestation. Russia is demanding Durov’s release. Democracy is the most brutal anti-freedom system that has ever existed in human history.
