Posted on 08/26/2024 4:14:11 PM PDT by McGruff
The detention of Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, in Paris on Saturday has raised questions about the future of a platform that has come to define the public perception of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion in 2022 helped transform Telegram from a niche communication tool for Russia’s educated classes into a global phenomenon. The app has allowed millions of people to follow battlefield developments in near real time, turned soldiers into the narrators of the conflict unfolding around them and gave both propagandists and dissidents a pulpit in the struggle for the hearts and minds of those monitoring the war.
Telegram was founded by Mr. Durov with his brother in 2013. Mr. Durov, a Russian-born French citizen,
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They banned me when I defended Trump. I don’t want to see them censored but ...
That Telegram is being used to expose the truth about the West’s failed proxy war in Ukraine is absolutely the reason Durov was arrested.
Sharing information and ideas is not permitted.
“Oceana has always been at war with Esatasia”
The totalitarian Europeans are going to be surprised and terrified when we kick Harris to the curb.
We need to convert our messages into Morse Code if we want to keep posting.
Um...that was kind of the idea.
I’m sure the sleaze bags at our State Department are helping the French, even pressuring them.
“complicity”
not helping with monitoring
“criminal association”
“laundering”
The box of a newly bought drill might contain more instructions than are necessary to operate the drill.
Daddy, I just found a quarter in the yard.
Daddy, what’s this?
A card taped to the quarter - let me put it in my camera.
Balloons with messages will travel.
Nothing new, Putin moved to censor before than later reembraced him.
Child abuse
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