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2024-08-26 Europe

'Darkness over the Free World': How Pavel Durov Fell into the Trap of Principles

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Posted by badanov 2024-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Holy State, of holy King, or Holy People's will...

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 02:07|| 2024-08-26 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 New Twitter Files raise question of how independent pre-Musk company was from Biden administration

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-26 03:08|| 2024-08-26 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Does MSM works for Democrats, or it's the other way around?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 03:12|| 2024-08-26 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL Zakharova, whose country has banned Whatsapp, Facebook, Signal.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-08-26 09:55|| 2024-08-26 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe EC. But isn't banning them a bit more honest than secretly sending the FBI to direct their operations?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-08-26 12:29|| 2024-08-26 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 It begs the question why they didn't ban Telegram.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-08-26 13:56|| 2024-08-26 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 ..in the US, the internet was found by SCOTUS to be like the phone company. Does the phone company get shut down because criminals use it to communicate illegal operations and activities? No. You get the actual criminal. Technically, the state has to get a wire tap warrant to listen in. With the internet, the perps remove that necessity and allow usable evidence for conviction to be out there.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-26 14:30|| 2024-08-26 14:30|| Front Page Top

#8 One of the charges are that Durov doesn't cooperate with French law enforcement.

Telegram has group talks, and in some of them, drug sales are organized or pictures of child abuse are exchanged. But if French law enforcement learns about one of these groups, Telegram doesn't respond to requests of French LE to cooperate in order to stop it because Telegram seems to believe: We're in Dubai, pound sand.

Well Durov is a French citizen arrested on French territory. Now he has a problem.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-08-26 15:04|| 2024-08-26 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Mr. Durov thought he was being clever a few years ago when he signed up for French citizenship in addition to all the others. What a sad illustration of the saying, so sharp he cut himself.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-26 22:28|| 2024-08-26 22:28|| Front Page Top

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