Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France

[obsidian]

Toncoin down 15%. A lot of people going to be pissed off with France / Deep State. More tyranny from the West. Time to cut off the head of the snake. They need to bleed.

But why did he visit France in the first place? It's a fucking shithole.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/

Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France

PARIS/MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - 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.
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Musk, billionaire owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said after reports of Durov's detention: "It's 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme."

[Taffin]

Does this suggest that Telegram will be breached and made open to the authorities so they can track people down?  Or simply blocked so people can't talk privately?

[Kwon]

Arrested for WHAT?


Saying some shit on Telegram/Facebook???


Is that how it is now?

[obsidian]

Does this suggest that Telegram will be breached and made open to the authorities so they can track people down?  Or simply blocked so people can't talk privately?

Could be. This is a political move. Free speech is the loser again. Things will change once these bureaucrats start dropping like flies.

From the same article:

"After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Telegram has become the main source of unfiltered - and sometimes graphic and misleading - content from both sides about the war and the politics surrounding the conflict.

The platform has become what some analysts call 'a virtual battlefield' for the war, used heavily by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his officials, as well as the Russian government.

Russia's foreign ministry said it had sent a note to Paris demanding access to Durov, although it said that he had French citizenship."

[obsidian]

Arrested for WHAT?


Saying some shit on Telegram/Facebook???


Is that how it is now?

Arrested for creating an app that resists censorship. How about those being censored skip to assassinations and targeted killings? They want to escalate things, ok. Many realize now it is a street fight. So run what ya brung.

[DanielPaul]

When the parent ( USA ) is weak in leadership over to long if a period these are the things that will continue to happen.

[Kwon]

Arrested for creating an app that resists censorship. How about those being censored skip to assassinations and targeted killings? They want to escalate things, ok. Many realize now it is a street fight. So run what ya brung.

Gotta be an Order from Deep State!


FUCK SAKE! They sure love their censorship

[Brenda Steunbeer]

Very stupid of him to travel to France / EU. He could have known he runs a risk of getting life in jail. Why on earth travel to a country with a 90% risk of being arrested?
He's very rich, so many other possible destinations. It seems he isn't acting rationally anymore.

[Kwon]

Very stupid of him to travel to France / EU. He could have known he runs a risk of getting life in jail. Why on earth travel to a country with a 90% risk of being arrested?
He's very rich, so many other possible destinations. It seems he isn't acting rationally anymore.

Any safe haven in Europe though?


Hungary? Poland?

[French]

Telegram is a haven for pedophiles, child pornography, Islamist terrorists and hackers who destroy businesses. That's why he was arrested. let's not forget that he has dual nationality, French and Russian.
He doesn't risk much in France unless the United States calls for his head

[Never1AShow]

If only there was someone Americans could vote for that was clearly opposed to this, who they were so afraid of they tried to shoot and who had been endorsed by a Kennedy. Step up or bend over

[Van_Bilderass]

If only there was someone Americans could vote for that was clearly opposed to this, who they were so afraid of they tried to shoot and who had been endorsed by a Kennedy. Step up or bend over

What was his stance on Tik Tok? Didn't he change it a bit?

I don't think you can have a government that doesn't seek information suppression.

[WrongAdvices]

What was his stance on Tik Tok? Didn't he change it a bit?

I don't think you can have a government that doesn't seek information suppression.

It's 100% clear he's not on the side of the censors and liars like the Ds and Left.  Both sides are not the same here.  RFK makes that point very clear.

[Mayday]

The digital ID is coming which removes privacy.

Knowing you kiss privacy goodbye and knowing your guns are also going to become massively restricted as a result, is this enough for those who glorify themselves by repeating the constitution to claim they are now under a tyrannical govt?

Or will you all vote Michelle Obama in as next president and ‘see how it goes’?

[Van_Bilderass]

It's 100% clear he's not on the side of the censors and liars like the Ds and Left.  Both sides are not the same here.  RFK makes that point very clear.

The left seem massively more censorious but the right censors plenty, see for example how we are allowed to talk about race. And that's that's what most internet censorship is about isn't it, on base level?

And come on man... politics = lying 

[obsidian]

The left seem massively more censorious but the right censors plenty, see for example how we are allowed to talk about race. And that's that's what most internet censorship is about isn't it, on base level?

And come on man... politics = lying 

Interesting discussion on free speech in the UK.

[Brenda Steunbeer]

Telegram is a haven for pedophiles, child pornography, Islamist terrorists and hackers who destroy businesses. That's why he was arrested. let's not forget that he has dual nationality, French and Russian.
He doesn't risk much in France unless the United States calls for his head

France = woke extremism. No freedom of speech for many decades. Extreme left wing bureaucrats silence everyone who isn't woke / DEI with skyhigh fines and jail sentences.
Oppressing their own people with the islamization of France as their goal. All French cities are black / full of desert people.

[Donny]

Telegram is a haven for pedophiles, child pornography, Islamist terrorists and hackers who destroy businesses. That's why he was arrested. let's not forget that he has dual nationality, French and Russian.
He doesn't risk much in France unless the United States calls for his head

It's because he's not accepted the EU online censorship.
Rumble is another platform doing the same, incidentally the grounder of Rumble has fled Europe since the arrest.
All the stuff you mentioned is just their excuses to close him down.
You French were always weaklings.

[Donny]

France = woke extremism. No freedom of speech for many decades. Extreme left wing bureaucrats silence everyone who isn't woke / DEI with skyhigh fines and jail sentences.
Oppressing their own people with the islamization of France as their goal. All French cities are black / full of desert people.

Exactly & it's basically nearly all over Europe
Look at Von der Leyen who is unwanted & unelected but is in power for another term.
Platforms like Telegram probably are used for other purposes but you won't see that sort of stuff unless you specifically look for it which I certainly don't.
Like many others I like to watch the critical channels which are censored in other platforms like YouTube
Macron is a Globalist puppet who is a prodogie of klaus schwab & other like minded tyrants who promote Mass immigration & sexual depravity  in schools .
They promote East German style indoctrination in kindergartens

[20inch calves]

In America ppl get fired for what they say on Facebook ect. We don't have true freedom of speech anymore.  Personally I don't post anything anyway but it's crazy when u think about it

[Humble Narcissist]

The left seem massively more censorious but the right censors plenty, see for example how we are allowed to talk about race. And that's that's what most internet censorship is about isn't it, on base level?

And come on man... politics = lying 

The Left wants to censor political speech while shadow banning any "science" that doesn't agree with their narrative. The Right wants to censor mostly pornography and anything Chinese.

[WrongAdvices]

The left seem massively more censorious but the right censors plenty, see for example how we are allowed to talk about race. And that's that's what most internet censorship is about isn't it, on base level?

And come on man... politics = lying 

So the Left is far worse, we agree.  Why try to equate the two?  Some people just can't get off the fence.

[B_B_C]

what do people mean by  free speech?

[obsidian]

what do people mean by  free speech?

The right to say whatever you want without being arrested or financially destroyed, regardless of your political or race views.

The Founding Fathers were free to discuss their rebellion against the tyrannical British rule in North America. With the help of France, they succeeded in ridding the future US of British tyranny. The US is becoming tyrannical again. The public should be free to discuss the tyranny and the removal of such if necessary. The citizens should have the means to combat / overthrow / replace tyrannical rule. The Second Amendment was not created to safeguard hunting. It was to prevent a tyrannical rule - the kind experienced before the War for Independence.

[Van_Bilderass]

So the Left is far worse, we agree.  Why try to equate the two?  Some people just can't get off the fence.

Because to me the censorship from both sides feels so massively oppressive. Both sides are constantly fighting over control of information. The "right" is only interested in free speech as long as that free speech is likely to help them, which it can do right now with X etc. Yes I'm pretty black pilled or whatever you want to call it lol. A "right wing" government in the US will not support free Russian or Chinese speech, propaganda, on social media. Nor "white supremacist" free speech although Musk let back some of those types. But there are strict limits. A Trump admin will not stop hounding white supremacists, which are most of us on Getbig. Not that we all agree on the designation but that's what they call anyone against immigration or whatever.