EU Founder and CEO of encrypted messenger Telegram questioned in France - Telegram founder Pavel Durov detained on arriving in France from Azerbaijan. shit is VERY BAD

Taser Confetti · Aug 25, 2024

Squishie PP said:
Live in a shithole where you can bribe the police.

Problem is the US State Dept has bigger pockets than me and anyone else in the world. I'd rather be somewhere ideologically opposed to being good goyim.

euler271 · Aug 25, 2024

The world owes him an apology

The Bunk · Aug 25, 2024

According to his Wiki article, Durov is also a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis, a small island nation in the Carribean. Saint Kitts and Nevis is a Commonwealth realm, and formally a subject of king Charles III of England. This makes Durov, and may Null forgive me for uttering this word, a Brit.
I now fully support the French government in their fight to annihilate the plague that is the British people.
Vive la France

Alt Owl · Aug 25, 2024

Matt Taibbi has an interesting perspective on the Durov arrest..

Keith the Horse Fucker · Aug 25, 2024

The Tall Man said:
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Don't go to France.

France has always been a faggy leftist haven of cowards

CrunkLord420 · Aug 25, 2024

Globohomo did this.

Useful_Mistake · Aug 25, 2024

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DjLiS

CEO of Rumble flees Europe because of this arrest

Super-Chevy454 · Aug 25, 2024

Useful_Mistake said:
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DjLiS
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CEO of Rumble flees Europe because of this arrest

I think some other CEOs will flee Europe asap.

clipartfan92 · Aug 25, 2024

clipartfan92 said:
promote information and ideologies that certain people don't approve of and don't allow on mainstream platforms

To be clear, I am speaking about using pineapple as a pizza topping. Here's how some of the mainstream press are reporting this:

French authorities arrest Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at a Paris airport, French media report
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Barbara Surk
2024-08-25 18:32:12GMT

NICE, France (AP) — The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport on an arrest warrant alleging his platform has been used for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses, French media reported Sunday.

Pavel Durov, a dual citizen of France and Russia, was taken into custody at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday evening after landing in France from Azerbaijan, according to broadcasters LCI and TF1.

Investigators from the National Anti-Fraud Office, attached to the French customs department, notified Durov, 39, that he was being placed in police custody, the broadcasters said.

Durov’s representatives couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.

French prosecutors declined to comment on Durov’s arrest when contacted by The Associated Press on Sunday, in line with regulations during an ongoing investigation.

French media reported that the warrant for Durov was issued by France at the request of the special unit at the country’s interior ministry in charge of investigating crimes against minors. Those include online sexual exploitation, such as possession and distribution of child sexual abuse content and grooming for sexual purposes.

Telegram was founded by Durov and his brother in the wake of the Russian government’s crackdown after mass pro-democracy protests that rocked Moscow at the end of 2011 and 2012.

The demonstrations prompted Russian authorities to clamp down on the digital space, adopting regulations that forced internet providers to block websites and cellphone operators to store call records and messages that could be shared with security services.

In the increasingly repressive environment, Telegram and its pro-privacy rhetoric offered a convenient way for Russians to communicate and share news. In 2018, Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor moved to block Telegram over its refusal to hand over encryption keys, but ultimately failed to fully restrict access to the app.

Telegram continued to be widely used — including by government institutions — and the ban was dropped two years later. In March 2024, Roskomnadzor said that Telegram was working with the Russian government to a certain extent and had removed more than 256,000 posts with prohibited content at Roskomnadzor’s request.

Telegram also continues to be a popular source of news in Ukraine, where both media outlets and officials use it to share information on the war, and deliver missile and air raid alerts.

Telegram did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Sunday.

A French judicial official suggested that Durov could appear before a judge later Sunday to determine whether he will remain in custody. The official wasn’t authorized to be named publicly during an ongoing investigation.

“If the person concerned is to be brought before a judge today, it is only in the context of the possible extension of his police custody measure — a decision that must be taken and notified by an investigating judge,” the official said.

Western governments have often criticized Telegram for lack of content moderating on the messaging service, which experts say opens up the messaging platform for potential use in money laundering, drug trafficking and allowing the sharing of content linked to sexual exploitation of minors.

Compared to other messaging platforms, Telegram is “less secure (and) more lax in terms of policy and detection of illegal content,” said David Thiel, a Stanford University researcher, who has investigated the use of online platforms for child exploitation, at its Internet Observatory.

In addition, Telegram “appears basically unresponsive to law enforcement,” Thiel said, adding that messaging service WhatsApp “submitted over 1.3 million CyberTipline reports in 2023 (and) Telegram submits none.”

In 2022, Germany issued fines of 5.125 million euros ($5 million) against the operators of Telegram for failing to comply with German law. The Federal Office of Justice said that Telegram FZ-LLC hasn’t established a lawful way for reporting illegal content or named an entity in Germany to receive official communication.

Both are required under German laws that regulate large online platforms.

Last year, Brazil temporarily suspended Telegram over its failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity related to a police inquiry into school shootings in November.

Russian government officials expressed outrage at Durov’s arrest, with some highlighting what they said was the West’s double standard on freedom of speech.

“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 Russian court’s decision to block Telegram,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

“Do you think this time they’ll appeal to Paris and demand Durov’s release?” Zakharova said in a post on her personal Telegram account.

Officials at the Russian Embassy in Paris had requested access to Durov, Zakharova told Russian state news outlet RIA Novosti, but she added that French authorities view Durov’s French citizenship as his primary one.

In a statement to the AP earlier this month, Telegram said that it actively combats misuse of its platform.

“Moderators use a combination of proactive monitoring and user reports in order to remove content that breaches Telegram’s terms of service. Each day, millions of pieces of harmful content are removed,” the company said.
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Associated Press writers Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, Matt OBrien in Providence, Rhode Island, and Barbara Ortutay in Oakland, California contributed to this report.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov detained in France
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Mary Ilyushina and Rachel Pannett
2024-08-25 17:50:38GMT

Russian-born tech mogul Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the popular platform Telegram, has been detained in France, French authorities confirmed Sunday. According to French media, his detention is related to alleged offenses regarding the social media app.

The Russian Embassy in Paris said early Sunday that it had requested consular access to Durov and demanded that French authorities “ensure the protection of his rights.”

“As of today, the French side has so far avoided cooperation on this issue,” the embassy said in a statement posted on Telegram, adding that officials are in touch with Durov’s lawyer.

Paris authorities said a statement regarding Durov’s detention will be issued Monday.

Durov was once viewed as a Russian Mark Zuckerberg. But he left the country in 2014 after he lost control of his social network because he refused to hand over Ukrainian opposition organizations’ data to security agencies.

French TV channel TF1 broke the news Saturday night, reporting that the billionaire was detained as he was traveling back from Azerbaijan aboard a private jet, which landed at the Bourget airport outside the capital.

Russia then sent a diplomatic note demanding access to Durov, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Sunday on Russian state TV, adding that the French government views his French citizenship as his primary nationality.

Durov lives in Dubai and is a dual citizen of the United Arab Emirates and France, according to Telegram. It’s not clear whether he renounced his Russian citizenship. The 39-year-old’s fortune is estimated by Forbes at about $15.5 billion.

Moderation rules under investigation
The French newspaper Le Monde reported that authorities detained Durov as part of a preliminary investigation that focused on the lack of content moderation on Telegram and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity. The probe is looking at Telegram’s failure to cooperate with law enforcement on issues ranging from child pornography to cyberscams to organized crime, the newspaper said.

The French Interior and Justice ministries did not respond to requests for comment. Telegram also did not reply to a message seeking the company’s response.

The online app’s unmoderated messaging services have provided a platform for groups posting content that might be banned on other major social media networks, from right-wing groups to organized crime figures and militant groups.

Telegram is also popular with criminal syndicates and terrorist groups because of its encrypted messaging, which makes it hard for law enforcement authorities to monitor any illegal activities.
Hamas, for example, has posted grisly first-person videos of the conflict in Gaza to help build a narrative that its militants are freedom fighters justified in their killing and abduction of Israeli civilians. Visceral footage from body-worn GoPro cameras flooded its Telegram channels during the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. (The app also hosts groups that claim the attacks were a “false flag” operation staged by Israel.)

Russia attempted to ban Telegram in 2018 over Durov’s refusal to share encryption keys and give access to users’ messages to the country’s security services under laws passed by the Russian government to curb internet freedoms. But Russia has also used Telegram’s online messaging services to post regular battleground updates — at times graphic and misleading — since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, have countered with their own version of the conflict.

Other governments have considered banning Telegram, also citing content-moderation concerns. The German government, for example, weighed that option during a 2022 debate over coronavirus vaccines, citing Telegram’s role in spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

In previous interviews with The Washington Post, Western officials have said Telegram has also been a useful tool for Russian military intelligence agency GRU to recruit for sabotage campaigns across Europe, including attempted disruptions and surveillance of transport lines used by NATO to supply Ukraine. In addition, Telegram had become a primary platform for Russia to disseminate disinformation in Europe and Ukraine, a senior European security official told The Post.

For his part, Durov has countered those allegations by arguing that his app, which passed 900 million monthly active users in 2024, should remain neutral and abstain from geopolitics.

Homegrown encryption
Durov has alienated many potential allies by attacking the security of other encrypted services and rejecting criticism of Telegram’s homegrown encryption, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, told The Post on Saturday. “At the same time, it is a really scary precedent to see a CEO arrested over content,” he said.

Russian officials and state media pundits quickly jumped on Durov’s detention to attack the West, slamming the “double standards” when it comes to matters of free speech.

“The French continue their fight for ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘European values,’” Russian lawmaker Andrei Klishas wrote on Telegram.

Russia’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that Durov’s detention was an example of the “very alarming totalitarian trends in countries which used to call themselves democratic.”

“Some naive persons still don’t understand that if they play more or less visible role in international information space it is not safe for them to visit countries which move toward much more totalitarian societies,” Ulyanov wrote on X.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who welcomed Zuckerberg to Russia in 2012, said that Durov’s detention should serve as a cautionary tale to all Russian entrepreneurs who flee Russia because of pressure from the Kremlin.

“[Durov] thought that his biggest problems were in Russia, so he left and got citizenship and residence permits in other countries,” Medvedev, who has emerged as one of the strongest anti-Western voices in Russia, wrote in a Telegram post. “He wanted to be a brilliant ‘man of the world’ living well without a homeland.”

The outrage of the Russian political elite was echoed by some voices on the American right.

X owner Elon Musk called Durov’s detention an “ad for the First Amendment,” adding: “POV: It’s 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme.”

“Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram,” right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson, who recently interviewed Durov for his X-based show, wrote Saturday on X. “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.”

Durov recounted to Carlson in that interview that he fled Russia and resigned from his successful social media tech company, VKontakte — which served as the Russian answer to Facebook — because of the Kremlin pressure to share personal data of Ukrainian pro-democracy protesters during the 2014 Maidan revolution. But he also said he felt pressured by the U.S. government to give its law enforcement a back door into Telegram.

“We get too much attention … whenever we came to the U.S.,” Durov told Carlson.

Joseph Menn, Catherine Belton and Naomi Nix contributed to this report.

Telegram’s Top Executive Pavel Durov Reportedly Detained in France
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur, and Aurelien Breeden
2024-08-25 17:31:34GMT

The French authorities on Saturday detained Pavel Durov, the top executive of the online communications platform Telegram, on charges related to the spread of illicit material on the service, according to French news reports.

Mr. Durov, 39, a Russian-born entrepreneur, was reportedly arrested at Le Bourget Airport near Paris after landing from Azerbaijan. His detention could not immediately be confirmed.

The Russian Embassy in France said in a statement on Sunday that it had asked the French authorities for clarification on news of the arrest.

Representatives of the French police and Interior Ministry declined to comment and redirected questions to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The Paris prosecutor’s office, citing an open investigation, also declined to comment.

Telegram did not respond to requests for comment.

In an interview on Telegram, George Lobushkin, a former press secretary for Mr. Durov who remains close to him, wrote, “This is a monstrous attack on freedom of speech worldwide.”

Telegram, with more than 900 million users, has long been on the radar of law enforcement agencies around the world because terrorist organizations, drug runners, weapons dealers and far-right extremist groups have used it for communicating, recruiting and organizing.

National governments, especially in the European Union, have intensified pressure on companies to combat disinformation and online extremism. Telegram has operated with less moderation of content than similar online platforms and does not always cooperate with the authorities.

Mr. Durov, whose net worth was estimated by Bloomberg at more than $9 billion, has largely avoided the kind of public scrutiny faced by top executives of other large online platforms, including Elon Musk of X, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Shou Chew of TikTok and Sundar Pichai of Google.

In France and many other European countries, the authorities want companies like Telegram to act more aggressively in blocking accounts, taking down content and combating illicit material.

That has created tension with companies like Telegram, which uses only several hundred moderators to police what is posted, according to experts and former employees, far fewer than companies such as Meta. When channels are taken down on Telegram, they often quickly reappear.

Of particular interest could be what information Telegram would decide to share, or withhold. The French authorities may try to force Telegram to share information with them on criminal channels that, for instance, are used to sell firearms or coordinate terrorist attacks. Such a move could test Telegram’s claim to its users that it strictly safeguards their information.

A Russian national, Mr. Durov left Russia in 2014 after he lost control of Vkontakte, the rival to Facebook in Russia. The year before, he founded Telegram, selling it as an uncensored and secretive way to communicate. The company is now based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Mr. Durov has citizenship in France and the U.A.E., according to Telegram.

Telegram works as a standard messaging app, like iMessage or WhatsApp, but also hosts channels and groups where large numbers of people can broadcast ideas and communicate.

Telegram’s popularity is partially rooted in moves it made to allow the hosting of huge chat groups of up to 200,000 people, at a time when other social media, like WhatsApp were taking steps to cut back group sizes in efforts to combat disinformation. Other functions, like sharing of large files, no limits on sharing links, and bots that can interact with users within channels have helped make it a powerful tool for social organization and coordination.

Those capabilities, combined with the app’s light moderation, made it a haven for individuals and groups that were banned from other platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Telegram makes money through in-app purchases, advertising, subscriptions and other promotions. In March, Mr. Durov told The Financial Times that Telegram was nearing profitability and considering an initial public offering.

Reports of Mr. Durov’s arrest were immediately met with criticism by fans of the service, as an example of governments trying to censor free speech on the internet. He has generally kept a low profile, not doing many media interviews. On his personal Telegram channel, he muses about various topics, including his ascetic lifestyle, the countries he travels to and, more recently, how as a sperm donor he now has more than 100 biological children. On Instagram, he occasionally posts photos of himself shirtless.

Although Mr. Durov portrays himself as a crusader for free speech, many security experts have said Telegram is not sufficiently encrypted. Disinformation analysts also say that by taking a light touch with moderation, the app has become a major vector for the spread of terrorist propaganda and far-right extremism.

Mr. Durov has linked the creation of Telegram to a run-in he had with Russia’s security services, who he said broke into his apartment in an effort to force him to take down opposition political material on Vkontakte. More recently, he abandoned plans to issue a cryptocurrency through Telegram after scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

After he left Russia in 2014, Mr. Durov has said he traveled to Berlin, San Francisco, London, Singapore and other cities before making Dubai the headquarters for Telegram. Russia at one point tried to ban Telegram, but the company’s troubles appeared to ease after a top company executive appeared in 2020 on a tech panel with Russia’s prime minister.

Tucker Carlson, the far-right talk show host who interviewed Mr. Durov this year, said the arrest was “a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies.”

Russian officials called for Mr. Durov’s release. Vladislav Davankov, deputy speaker of the State Duma, a chamber of Russia’s parliament, said his arrest could be an effort to gain access to information held by Telegram and “cannot be allowed,” according to Meduza, an independent Russia news organization.

Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
Reuters (archive.ph)
By Ingrid Melander and Guy Faulconbridge
2024-08-25 15:54:44GMT

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 one Russian source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Durov was arrested shortly after arriving at Le Bourget airport on a private jet from Azerbaijan.

One of the two French police sources said that ahead of the jet's arrival police had spotted he was on the passenger list and moved to arrest him because he was the subject of an arrest warrant in France.

Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a third French police source said.

A cybersecurity gendarmerie unit and France's national anti-fraud police unit are leading the investigation, that source said, adding that the investigative judge was specialised in organised crime.

Telegram and senior Telegram managers did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The French Interior Ministry, police and Paris prosecutor's office had no comment. Durov faces possible indictment on Sunday, according to French media.

Russian lawmaker Maria Butina, who spent 15 months in U.S. prison for acting as an unregistered Russian agent, said Durov "is a political prisoner - a victim of a witch-hunt by the West." Durov's arrest led news bulletins in Russia.

Telegram, based in Dubai, was founded by Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he has sold.

The encrypted application, with close to one billion users, is particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union. It is ranked as one of the major social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and WeChat.

TELEGRAM
Durov, who is estimated by Forbes to have a fortune of $15.5 billion, said in April some governments had sought to pressure him but the app should remain a "neutral platform" and not a "player in geopolitics".

Durov came up with the idea of an encrypted messaging app as a way to communicate while he faced pressure in Russia. His younger brother, Nikolai, designed the encryption.

"I would rather be free than to take orders from anyone," Durov said in April about his exit from Russia and search for a home for his company which included stints in Berlin, London, Singapore and San Francisco.

After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Telegram has become the main source of unfiltered - and sometimes graphic and misleading - content from both sides about the war and the politics surrounding the conflict.

The platform has become what some analysts call 'a virtual battlefield' for the war, used heavily by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his officials, as well as the Russian government.

Russia's foreign ministry said it had sent a note to Paris demanding access to Durov, although it said that he had French citizenship.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Durov had misjudged by fleeing Russia and thinking that he would never have to cooperate with the security services abroad.

Medvedev, who regularly uses Telegram to criticise and insult the West, said Durov wanted to be a "brilliant 'man of the world' who lives wonderfully without a Motherland."

"He miscalculated," Medvedev said. "For all our common enemies now, he is Russian – and therefore unpredictable and dangerous."

Russia began blocking Telegram in 2018 after the app refused to comply with a court order granting state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.

The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram there. The ban order, however, sparked mass protests in Moscow and criticism from NGOs.

'NEUTRAL PLATFORM'
Telegram says it "is committed to protecting user privacy and human rights such as freedom of speech and assembly."

Durov has previously accused U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of seeking to get a backdoor into the platform. The FBI has not commented on those allegations.

Telegram's increasing popularity, however, has prompted scrutiny from several countries in Europe, including France, on security and data breach concerns.

Musk, billionaire owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said after reports of Durov's detention: "It's 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme."

Outside the French embassy in Moscow, a lone protester held up a sign reading: "Liberté pour Pavel Durov".

(This story has been refiled to fix a grammar in the first bullet point)

Reporting by Ingrid Melander, Gilles Guillaume, Corentin Chappron and Alain Acco in Paris, Lidia Kelly in Melbourne, Camille Raynaud in Toronto and Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow; Writing by Lidia Kelly, Ingrid Melander and Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by David Gregorio, Lincoln Feast, Kim Coghill and Louise Heavens

Telegram CEO’s Detention in France May Be Extended by 24 Hours
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Bloomberg News
2024-08-25 15:22:43GMT

Pavel Durov, the chief executive officer of the Telegram messaging service, could have his detention in France extended by another 24 hours, according to a French judicial source.

The arrest of Russian-born Durov was earlier reported by Agence France-Presse and other French media. The Russian embassy in Paris responded to the media reports saying it “immediately asked the French authorities for an explanation of the reasons and demanded that they ensure the protection of his rights and provide consular access” to Russian-born Durov.

Embassy officials are in touch with Durov’s lawyer, according to the statement.

Durov was detained at Le Bourget airport on Saturday for alleged offenses related to the messaging app, AFP reported earlier, citing officials it didn’t identify. The 39-year-old billionaire is suspected of failing to take steps to prevent criminal use of Telegram, AFP said, adding he’s expected to appear in court on Sunday.

Durov lives in Dubai and is a citizen of France and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Telegram website. Durov has not previously commented on whether he renounced his Russian citizenship.

Under the French legal system, police can detain a person for 24 hours, a period that can be renewed once. Durov could be brought before a Paris court on Monday if authorities want to be able to keep him beyond the initial detention period, the person said.

The Paris prosecutor’s office earlier said it had no comment, in line with “procedures followed during an investigation.” The Paris police, president of the city’s court, Telegram and the UAE Foreign Ministry didn’t respond to messages seeking comment outside of regular business hours.

France’s Ofmin, an agency set up to combat violence against minors, issued an arrest warrant for Durov, AFP said. Ofmin is the coordinating agency in a preliminary probe into alleged offenses such as fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime and promotion of terrorism, according to AFP.

Following reports of Durov’s arrest, Toncoin — a cryptocurrency linked to Telegram — sank as much as 23%.

Telegram was created by Durov and his brother Nikolai, a programmer and mathematician. It has about 900 million active users and is one of the most popular messaging apps globally. Its relatively light-touch approach to content moderation has led to allegations that it’s frequently used for criminal activity and extremist material.

The Durov brothers made their fortune from creating the Russia-based social network VKontakte in 2006. That platform quickly became popular among Russians, making it a target for a billionaire with ties to the Kremlin.

Durov fled the country in 2014 and sold his stake in VKontakte. He has a net worth of over $9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

In an April interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Durov discussed the pressure he faced from Russian authorities while running VKontakte as well as the scrutiny that Telegram has received from law enforcement agencies around the world.

“I would rather be free, I wouldn’t want to take orders from anyone,” Durov said during the interview.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1780355490964283565 (archive.ph)

— With assistance from Alan Katz, Alfred Cang, Dina Khrennikova, Daniel Zuidijk, and Jenny Che

(Updates first and sixth paragraph with person-familiar information.)
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Here's the interview on youtube:

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w

The Ugly One · Aug 25, 2024

Wait until they find out how few controls are on pen and paper. I can write "nigger" as many times as I want, burn it, and nothing is left! There isn't even a backdoor exploit?

JackoVerde · Aug 25, 2024

Squishie PP said:
Live in a shithole where you can bribe the police.

If you could find a way to get enough bandwith and private security, somalia would be a good spot.

emergenigger · Aug 25, 2024

The Ugly One said:
Wait until they find out how few controls are on pen and paper.

"We need sensible BIC control"
>the entire union fucking collapses in 50 years' time
I wouldn't be surprised if they did that.

JackoVerde · Aug 25, 2024

De_Generic said:
"We need sensible BIC control:
>the entire union fucking collapses
I wouldn't be surprised if they did that.

The pen is mightier than the sword, that means we need IDs to buy pens.

Handler Holiday · Aug 25, 2024

Shocked that Telegram hasn't already been shut down.
The pedocriminal activity on there alone is startling.

Every single nonce on the internet and zoophile links directly to telegram accounts and it's been no secret.
Can't believe le baguettes are the the first to arrest a guy over this

CrunkLord420 · Aug 25, 2024

Reminds me of how glowies run around claiming everything is compromised
>Tor is compromised
>Matrix is compromised
>Telegram is compromised
>Signal is compromised
>VPNs are compromised
Sans any evidence whatsoever. Ignoring all historical evidence to the contrary, including legal actions.

Turns out, Telegram wasn't compromised. Watch out for glowies and their retarded useful idiots making baseless claims.

Karl Franz · Aug 25, 2024

CrunkLord420 said:
Reminds me of how glowies run around claiming everything is compromised
>Tor is compromised
>Matrix is compromised
>Telegram is compromised
>Signal is compromised
>VPNs are compromised
Sans any evidence whatsoever. Ignoring all historical evidence to the contrary, including legal actions.

Turns out, Telegram wasn't compromised. Watch out for glowies and their retarded useful idiots making baseless claims.

Only somewhat proves it is not compromised by the French.

Maneo Tempestas · Aug 25, 2024

Pro. Memer said:
I'm starting to realize that the battle on encryption and that kind of privacy, especially for popular apps, will most likely be lost. Governments will never stop trying to stop it. Same with other similar freedoms.
Furthermore, life in the west is far too comfortable for any form of actual large-scale protests.
I hope I'm wrong.

Watch the Mike Benz interview with Tucker Carlson for loss of your last piece of hope.

Terrifik · Aug 25, 2024

Useful_Mistake said:
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DjLiS
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CEO of Rumble flees Europe because of this arrest

i guess some is scared he next .
better bend that knee Chris before your in the tower of london .
it took bidden 8% - in poll deficit during a Election Season vs Trump to have Julian Assange Free + Plea deal sent back to Austrila.
...
EDIT:
forgot about our best boy - MUSK

Caesare · Aug 25, 2024

NoIdeaWhatImDoing said:
That reminds me, the Argies and Frenchies were fighting a month or so ago because the Argentinians made a funny song calling the French National Team ( that looks like this) Africans and this really offended the French.
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I remember that. And the way the news story reported it, they weren't even mad about Argentina making fun of them for not having any French people on their team. Instead, it was because, "Oh non! Comme c'est raciste!"

and and and and · Aug 25, 2024

Unfortunate but also L + rip bozo for willingly choosing to stay in France

EU Founder and CEO of encrypted messenger Telegram questioned in France - Telegram founder Pavel Durov detained on arriving in France from Azerbaijan. shit is VERY BAD

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