A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform. The app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was detained over the weekend near Paris.
  • miz [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    imagine how western media would screech and cry if China arrested Steve Huffman or Myanmar arrested Mark Zuckerberg

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Left Russia because of the state pushing him out of VK for resisting orders over users involved in the Maidan thing in Ukraine, went thru special French naturalization for billionaires just to get arrested there.

    I just assumed Telegram was some NATO aligned thing from the start, whether this joker knew it or not. I guess that wasn't entirely true.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      Ah finally, a true free speech champion

    • miz [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      went thru special French naturalization for billionaires just to get arrested there.

      holy fucking shit. this is one of the dumbest moves of all time

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Guessing for not cooperating with intelligence and security agencies given the list of charges would easily apply to all the other social medias and chat apps

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      all the other social media apps do cooperate -- even tiktok

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    I mean he was probably arrested for something else but anytime i checked my local chatgroups it was all people looking for hard drugs and underage girls. Some of them accounts who were crying on russian telegrams about trans people ruining kids. So that actually is a problem.