Official charges released against Telegram founder Pavel Durov after his arrest in France.

BRICS News ^ | 8/26/24 | BN

[hardspunned]

Durov is facing up to 20 years in prison.

• Complicity – web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group,

• Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,

• Complicity – possessing pornographic images of minors,

• Complicity - distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group,

• Complicity - acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances,

[hardspunned]

It’s beginning to feel like the beginning of the Scamdemic.

[mware]

Refusal to communicate with authorities upon request???

[hardspunned]

Wow! Can’t Garland charge Trump on some of those same charges at Truth Social too? Ooops! I shouldn’t have said that.

[Glad2bnuts]

So pictures SHARED using an app, are not only the property of the app, but evidence of a crime? Unlike Google or Facebook, Telegram does not claim ownership of our words or pictures. If they do, I will look for a different messaging app.

[BenLurkin]

"Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law"

Police state much?

[Tench_Coxe]

They’re going to try it with Musk.

[fruser1]

They must have trouble decrypting it.

Governments that don’t like you being able to defend yourself also don’t like you having communications they can’t spy on.

[Seruzawa]

All because the guy didn’t remember to pay the 10%.... the only real crime in Macaroni’s book.

[AZJeep]

OK, It now makes some sense.
Originally, I thought he was accused of doing all those crimes.
He apparently did not do any of these offenses himself, but, since he prevented governments to spy on people, he facilitated all those crimes.

Kind of like Nazi or communist regimes, you are guilty of the crime, if you do not report it, or help government to prosecute.

[HombreSecreto]

J’accuse Durov!!!

[CdMGuy]

If I were Elon Musk, I would eliminate quite a few European countries from my travel destinations.

[higgmeister]

Tortured Old Man

[tinamina]

https://rumble.com/v5cd7xe-interview-with-durov-from-a-few-months-ago-german-subtitles.html

[Jumper]

Apple is removing the app from phones. This is the Globalist Facism rearing its ugly head to hold power.

[Jumper]

Macron is ignoring the will of the voters holding on to power.

He has caused another coup. The US has had two coups since 2020.

[pierrem15]

Refusal to communicate with authorities upon request???

No 5th Amendment in Europe. Even here, if there is a search warrant and you are granted immunity, you can be compelled to produce evidence or go to jail if you do not.

[pierrem15]

I hope Telegram is structured so that it stores no decryption keys on servers, only on apps: you create a group and its key is stored only on your app + your key on your app, and the group key is only shared with those invited.

If so, there's no way Durov can decrypt anyone's messages, so I suspect the point is to shut down such apps by imprisoning the owners/creators.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

• Complicity - distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group,

Why are they stopping with the social media organization? Shouldn't the makers of the cameras used also be charged? Shouldn't the electric companies supplying power to the people distributing and viewing these images also be charged? They're all equally complicit.

Pathetic attempt to stifle free speech.

[marshmallow]

Remember when Russia, in its previous totalitarian embodiment as the Soviet Union, used to arrest Western facilitators of free speech under the specious pretext of "crimes"?

Well now Western totalitarian regimes arrest Russian advocates of free speech on similar specious pretexts.

[Kathy in OC]

Yeah! And gun manufacturers, gun stores and ammunition manufacturers should all be charged when there are mass shootings, right?