Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov made a critical mistake when he landed his private jet in his home country, France. He forgot that Emmanuel Macron's France is pretty much a totalitarian state at this point.
He was arrested for alleged offenses related to his messaging app. Not that he personally committed any of those offenses, mind you, but he allowed 1 billion people in the world to use his app to speak freely without any moderators.
France alleges that the lack of moderators to curb misinformation, along with the app using end-to-end encryption that only the sender and receiver can access, has led to criminals using Telegram for all sorts of diabolical activities, including the transmission of child pornography.
So, the billionaire is accused of being complicit in any crimes planned or committed on his platform.
The offenses leveled at Durov by France's OFMIN, an agency that deals with the prevention of violence against minors, include fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, and organized crime, according to the AFP news agency, which quoted officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
Elon Musk, the CEO of X, who would no doubt be most affected by European countries arresting social media tycoons for speech used on their app, was nonplussed.
Some people are asking, if allowing child predators to use your app is cause for arrest, why hasn't someone like Mark Zuckerberg been arrested when CP is well documented on Facebook and Instagram?
Elon has that answer as well.
Regime-friendly social media is protected. Free speech is censored.
Here's the link to watch Tucker's interview with Durov on X.
Ironic that he fled to a "free" European country from Russia, only to be arrested there.
Here's some more important commentary on this arrest.
Is it just me, or is liberty becoming more and more rare in the world?
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