Telegram CEO Pavel Durov detained at airport in France

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French authorities have detained Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, at an airport outside Paris, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

Officers from France’s anti-fraud office, attached to French customs, took him into custody Saturday evening after he arrived at Bourget Airport on a flight from Azerbaijan, BFMTV reported.

Durov, 39, was wanted under a French arrest warrant due to the lack of moderation on Telegram which led to it being used for money laundering, drug trafficking and sharing pedophilic content, according to BFMTV.

According to BFMTV, the Telegram founder had not regularly travelled to France and Europe since the arrest warrant was issued.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/24/europe/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-detained-france-intl-latam/index.html

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Elon Musk will be next

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Hmm, now seems like a good time to update my organization’s TOS so that users in France are legally prohibited from using our software and services.

As usual, it’s not the encryption, or the gun, or the knife or the <insert inanimate tool or technology here>… it’s the person(s) who willfully misuse those items.

It’s sad so many seem to be striving for the ideals of communist regimes.

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov charged by French prosecutors

Pavel Durov, the CEO and a co-founder of the news and messaging app Telegram, has been charged in France with enabling various forms of criminality in the app, French prosecutors said Wednesday.

One of the charges — complicity in administering an online platform permitting illicit transactions by an organized group — carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 euros ($555,750), prosecutors said…

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