“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
Out of control government is out of control.
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