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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
BBC ^ | 8/24/24 | Thomas MacIntosh

Posted on 08/24/2024 4:17:38 PM PDT by hardspunned

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old had been arrested under a warrant for offences related to the popular messaging app. Russia's embassy in France is taking "immediate steps" to clarify the situation, according to Russia's TASS state news agency.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; France; Government; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: 202408; azerbaijan; ceo; children; chrispavlovski; durov; encrypted; encryption; france; instagram; markzuckerberg; meta; paveldurov; pavlovski; pedo; rumble; telegram; telegraph; vkontakte; zuckerberg
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F’n French fascists!
1 posted on 08/24/2024 4:17:38 PM PDT by hardspunned
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“Telegram founder Pavel Durov recently revealed to Tucker Carlson that the FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.

The FBI also hired agents to infiltrate ‘anti-vaxx’ Telegram groups, with FBI contractors creating multiple fake online identities to join chatrooms run by groups opposing vaccine mandates.”

From an interview with Tucker Carlson.

https://x.com/shadowofezra/status/1827467035229745463?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


2 posted on 08/24/2024 4:21:01 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Out of control government is out of control.


3 posted on 08/24/2024 4:28:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Maria Zakharova:

“The Russian Embassy in Paris promptly took action, as is customary when informed that Russian citizens have been detained by local authorities. There’s no need to remind our diplomats of their duties.

This brings to mind how, in 2018, a group of 26 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and others, condemned the decision of a Russian court to block Telegram. Similar statements were made in the West (1, 2, 3, 4).

These statements were made because, on July 1, 2018, the Yarovaya Law came into effect in Russia, requiring telecommunications operators to store records of phone messages and internet traffic of their clients for six months, as well as keys to decrypt user communications, and provide them to the FSB of Russia upon request. Telegram faced legal challenges that many countries had due to the technical aspects of its encryption system.

These Western NGOs called on Russian authorities to stop creating obstacles for Telegram’s operations. They appealed to the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, and other governments to oppose Russia’s actions, defend fundamental rights to freedom of expression and privacy, and urged internet companies to resist unjust and unlawful demands that violate user rights. They demanded that Russian authorities guarantee the rights of global internet users to publish and anonymously view information on websites, emphasizing that any restrictions must be court-sanctioned and fully comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Meanwhile, Durov remained free, continuing to develop Telegram.

I’m sharing a screenshot of all the relevant Western organizations that spoke out at that time, including their collective statement. Do you think they’ll appeal to Paris this time and demand Durov’s release, or will they remain silent?”

https://x.com/zlatti_71/status/1827486093765152779?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


4 posted on 08/24/2024 4:29:57 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: BenLurkin

Elon, please stay out of Fascist France!


5 posted on 08/24/2024 4:31:38 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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I wonder what horrible crimes he committed.


6 posted on 08/24/2024 4:39:40 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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“’SHUT UP!’ he explained.”


7 posted on 08/24/2024 4:41:45 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: monkeyshine

Elon Musk:

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, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world. Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago:
https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1827460234887008277?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


8 posted on 08/24/2024 4:42:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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I always thought Telegram was just another social media platform in the vein of Tiktok and FB. Apparently it is not. Have I missed something here?


9 posted on 08/24/2024 4:43:30 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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I always thought Telegram was just another social media platform in the vein of Tiktok and FB. Apparently it is not. Have I missed something here?

Think of it like WhatsApp and X.

10 posted on 08/24/2024 4:44:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: monkeyshine

He’s Russian. To many in the West, that’ the crime.


11 posted on 08/24/2024 4:44:27 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: ducttape45

The Deep State can’t control Telegram.


12 posted on 08/24/2024 4:46:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: monkeyshine
I wonder what horrible crimes he committed.

He aided and abetted free speech. And he's clearly guilty of that.

Roosevelt to America to war against the Axis to ensure the Four Freedoms, the first of which was Freedom of Speech and Expression.

Perhaps the US should go to war with the NATO nations to enforce those freedoms again.

13 posted on 08/24/2024 4:47:10 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: MinorityRepublican

I know what X is of course, I have an account there, but I’ve never seen WhatsApp. I don’t like to have a whole lot of social media accounts. I like to keep things as simple as possible.


14 posted on 08/24/2024 4:58:01 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: hardspunned

The left hates free speech.

Here, get yourself some free wine.
https://www.lastbottlewines.com/invite/9089c7ae35134c87afa2.html


16 posted on 08/24/2024 5:00:19 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: ducttape45
I’ve never seen WhatsApp. I don’t like to have a whole lot of social media accounts. I like to keep things as simple as possible.

WhatsApp is great. Basically, it's instant messaging. Not as popular in the U.S.

The only downside with WhatsApp is that Meta owns it.

17 posted on 08/24/2024 5:01:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ducttape45

It’s like X but based in Europe. The FBI tried to recruit Durov the same way they did Jack Dorsey. Durov told them to pound sand. He violated the laws Elon Musk is guilty of in France and Britain. Both Durov and Musk are equally guilty of refusing to be globalist stooges. The British regime has already threatened Musk over his “misinformation”. They WILL arrest Elon Musk if he goes to the EU. Western fascism, plain and simple.


18 posted on 08/24/2024 5:02:27 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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from Reuters:
“Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.
TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app”

TF1 and BFM are both tv stations. no other info on what type of arrest warrant (French, British, interpol?? etc)) Russia is calling for demonstrations outside French embassies, but Durov gave up his Russian citizenship some time ago and is a French/ UAI dual citizen

SpaceX has been tapped to rescue the stranded astronauts so they better leave Musk alone


19 posted on 08/24/2024 5:04:03 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Zekes here loathe telegram

They should be happy


20 posted on 08/24/2024 5:10:06 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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