Posted on 08/28/2024 2:17:02 PM PDT by hardspunned
Pavel Durov was released. After bail was promptly posted, he left prison. He did not talk to journalists, got into a car with guards and drove away.
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Run Luke, Run!
Did you see that security guy that got into the passenger seat. THAT’S what Trump and Kennedy need. A bunch of COMPETENT guys. No DEI there.
He isn’t getting out he is headed to a French courtroom.
The mainstream media spinning this as a release when it’s just the end of his questioning pending his court appearance.
What is the bottom line? The bottom line for those services to keep a blackmail file on every politician in the world, their family and their supporters. Then when necessary it can be used as get out of jail free card! That’s the way you deal with this situation. Government started it and defined the rules (there aren’t any!).
He’s worth 15 billion. Forget the passport just get on your plane and buy your way into Aruba or the Caymans.
“You cannot make it safe against criminals and open for governments,” Durov told CNN in 2016. “It’s either secure or not secure.”In the Seventies in the USAF, I operated NSA crypto gear. In this day and age, I'm on the secure side of the equation.
On the other hand, governments in no time, no doubt, will prosecute to the nth degree any person seen to have anything to do with the Telegram platform, not unlike gun control in New York City.
I agree, and hope he is able to do so as quickly as possible.
He is perfectly safe in Dubai. That is where his company is headquartered.
I recently started using Telegram. It is honestly pretty good.
He's out on $5,000,000 bond.
That's chump change to a billionaire!
Get the hell out of dodge and consider the $5,000,000 the cost of freedom.
Yes Dubai would be a good place to go.
Just curios...how are you “”on the secure side of the equation?”
I do not thing the owners are involved in the crimes the French have suggested. I think they are making up crap and bullying Telegram into giving the French government all the data they think they are entitled to.
LOL I believe in individual privacy to the fullest extent and that it is an extension of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
I'm an old fashion kind of guy who believes that a real crime has to be committed before any authority has any business getting involved. I am talking about an actual crime not some new age made up offense created in my lifetime.
I think you’re right.
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