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Russian soldiers and military bloggers have railed against the Kremlin after it restricted access to the Telegram messaging app. Widespread disruptions to the app were reported on Monday and Tuesday as Roskomnadzor, the Russian state media regulator, said it would levy its strongest restrictions on Telegram’s operations yet. The internet watchdog said the move would safeguard Russian citizens against “criminal and terrorist” content, in Moscow’s latest crackdown on the free internet. Roskomnadzor, which has for years crusaded for a “sovereign internet” liberated from Western influence, has over the past six months imposed new limits on Telegram and WhatsApp at least...

EU Europe is increasingly abandoning a civilized approach to dissenting opinions. The raid on the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s company X appears to be just the tip of the iceberg. Today, those who resist are being attacked on multiple levels, while those who submit are largely spared. It is time to increase pressure on Brussels. Elon Musk’s communications platform X has become caught between systemic fronts. On one side stands the American understanding of free speech, which has experienced a political revival under Donald Trump’s new presidency. On the other, an increasingly repressive EU control regime is eroding the...

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of the Telegram messaging app, accused French intelligence on Sunday of asking him through an intermediary to censor some Moldovan voices ahead of a presidential vote last year in return for help with his court case in France. Moldovans were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday that could have a major impact on the government's quest to join the European Union, as a pro-Russian opposition group seeks to steer the nation away from closer ties with the bloc. France did not immediately comment on the remarks by Durov, who was arrested in 2024 at...

This week National Rally President Jordan Bardella saying he wants to see a French version of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.... Meanwhile the National Rally's leader in the National Assembly and leading 2027 presidential candidate Marine Le Pen worries about the exclusion of Calin Georgescu from Romania's presidential election... 200 percent tariffs on French wine. The idea presented by President Trump... On Saturday afternoon in Paris a live video stream of protest labeled "Les Gilets Jauns Historiques"... A video conference of leaders from the UK and Europe this weekend on Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron saying that Russia: "does not give...

CIA official Asif W. Rahman was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday and charged with disclosing classified documents allegedly showing Israel's retaliation plans against Iran, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. He was brought to a federal court in Guam to face charges. Rahman was indicted by a US federal court in Virginia with charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, the report said. According to the New York Times, the documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes US spy satellite information and photos. CIA official had top-secret security clearance Rahman...

In Bolivia former Leftist President Evo Morales demanding... In Israel early Tuesday rocket fire from Lebanon rockets landing... Telegram CEO Pavel Durov saying the social media app will share phone numbers and IP addresses with authorities when presented with a valid legal request. Durov currently under the pressure... A police internal investigation order in Israel that's after confrontation between religious Jews (Haredi) and police... The US moving additional troops to the Middle East... The US sanctioning Chinese technology for cars as well as car technology from Russia... At least 30 bodies have been discovered on a boat drifting off the...

US politics three national polls two of them giving Kamala Harris the lead... In New York City this week more FBI raids aimed at officials close to Mayor Eric Adams... Colin Gray the father of the suspect in the Georgia school attack yesterday arrested... Telegram CEO Pavel Durov making his first comments since his arrest...he was told that he could be held responsible for other people's illegal use of Telegram... "I don't know if I'm insulted or he did me a favor" Donald Trump's reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments earlier today... "you're not going to have an Israel"...

The consultations on a new government offered up by President Macron continued Monday with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen of the National Rally... And by Monday night Mr. Macron was able to say that there was no way for a united Left to lead a new government. The media messaging kept hinting at displaying notions of a government without the LFI that would include other parties of the New Popular Front Left... This weekend plotting to break the Socialist Party away from the New Popular Front alliance through making a Socialist personality Prime Minister in the cards... On Thursday...

French authorities arrested Russian-born dual UAE-French citizen Pavel Durov last weekend as he disembarked his private plane in Paris. Durov, who is the CEO and founder of popular messaging app Telegram, faces a number of serious charges from French authorities ranging from drug offenses to child sexual exploitation offenses.Of course, none of these charges have anything to do with Durov directly but rather refer to activity that allegedly occurred on Telegram, Durov’s privacy-focused messaging app that boasts nearly 1 billion active users. It is unclear from the charging documents what exactly the French authorities’ argument is regarding Durov’s culpability, and...

Two Ukrainian drones shot down over the water near the port city of Sevastopol... The Dutch Defense Minister says that a computer failure at the country's Ministry of Defense was not the result... The Biden-Harris Administration request to allow it to ease student debt loans rejected... In Las Vegas former Democrat elected official Robert Telles found guilty of murdering an investigative journalist... The Biden-Harris Administration imposing sanctions on a Jewish settler group and a Jewish settlement security coordinator in Israel... In Yemen heavy rainfall causing at least 33 deaths... Prosecutors in Sweden charging two men with hate crimes for burning...

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.

Goal of the Authoritarian Deep State is to either #1 Shut down Telegram or #2 Coerce Durov into Censoring Content/Sharing Telegram User Data - French prosecutors say Telegram messaging app CEO has been freed from custody, will appear in court

Two Ukraine wide air raid alerts late tonight... Israel's military conducting an attack in Tulkarm in the "West Bank" with five terrorists killed... Biden Administration special prosecutor Jack Smith seeking to revive the "classified documents" case... The Palestinian health ministry says Jewish settlers attacked a village near Bethlehem with one killed... French law enforcement acknowledging the questioning of an 'unnamed person' who is in reality Telegram owner Pavel Durov...arrest has been extended... In the midst of constant Israeli evacuation orders the United Nations suspending humanitarian aid in Gaza... A sea drone and small boats reported near a merchant vessel off...

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...

On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws.Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.On Saturday evening Mike Benz, the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online released a video explaining who he believes is behind this arrest – The US State Department.Benz is an authority of the Deep State and the US government operations in Europe and abroad.Mike Benz:SNIPOne of the things they’re talking about in the space...

George Washington University (GWU) law professor Jonathan Turley slammed “global censors” Monday morning on “Fox and Friends” following the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov. French authorities arrested Durov, the billionaire creator and messaging app CEO ... concerns many in the European Union have for potential chilling of free speech. ... People need to realize what’s really going on here. We haven’t seen anything akin to a charging sheet, but it appears that he’s being arrested under these European laws that are designed to force social media companies to engage in censorship,” Turley said. ... the “most infamous” European law...

Alexander S. Vindman @AVindman While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter. There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability. Musk should be nervous.

In this particular case the Gab user "@Die_Lunte_brennt_schon" published two posts that sexualize the German politican "Ricarda Lang" and denigrate her weight. Through the sexualized and denigrated representation of "Ricarda Lang", the user attacks the honour of the politician and shows his own disrespect (section 185 of the German criminal code). With this insult the user publicly position the pubic political life on the grounds of the insulted person's The Gab-account "@Die_Lunte_brennt_schon" is the originator of the hate.

PARIS/MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody, three sources told Reuters. The arrest of the 39-year-old technology billionaire prompted on Sunday a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack. There was no official confirmation from France of the arrest, but two French police sources and...

WHY DON’T THEY ARREST MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR ENABLING CHILD PREDAT0RS? Because he already caved into censorship pressure.