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The DSA is new and many of its tools have not yet been tested, but it includes several measures to force Telegram to better cooperate with the authorities,
With all eyes on Telegram and the situation in France, EU authorities need to act now,
It's about what European Union member states and the EU — or other democratic countries — do with platforms that don't play by the rules and refuse to provide information to the authorities,
Julian Jaursch, an expert on platform regulation at the Berlin-based think tank interface, told DW It could also lead other social media and communication platforms to adopt stricter content moderation measures that could lead to censorship,
Natalia Krapiva, senior tech-legal counsel at digital rights group Access Now, told DW Would investors buy into an IPO if they are not sure if Telegram is a pariah?” ... I am not sure. Bond investors would face a similar dilemma,
asked one bondholder who spoke with the FT ... adding that This is a very significant threat to both privacy and free speech,
This is important because in the developing world, and in places where there are current conflicts or war zones, there are features in Telegram that let you send broadcast messages out to a large audience of people. You can think of it like sending a message out on a social media feed,
This should be a huge story. It's part of the ongoing war on privacy and free speech, globally,
Matze told Fox News Digital In 2021, my company was deplatformed and taken offline as a result of accusations regarding content moderation, which were untrue. Here we're seeing a repeat of these circumstances with what's happening to Telegram, where a very reactionary group of people is putting pressure to both censor content and eradicate privacy from his platform,
What that does is, in conflict zones or places where free speech isn't respected and people are trying to really fight for their lives,
It's basically just a sign to not just Durov but also the other executives with Telegram that basically, the authorities are keeping an eye on them,
It's going to impact Telegram’s ability to raise funds. So the financial viability of the app is going to take a hit,
What makes this French action so special is the implications it can potentially have for how these international social media platforms treat people in other countries that have nothing to do with what's happening in France,
I think that both the fact that the Kremlin and the military use Telegram, and the fact that Durov does still hold Russian citizenship are both reasons for the Kremlin to come out and to be really vocal against his arrest by the French authorities.”
We don't know all of the details of what they're accusing them of, what they've seen. Until we have those details, it's maybe hard to say whether or not this is extreme,
he told CNA’s Asia Now on Thursday But Russia's not really the kind of country to be educating other countries on the issue of freedom of speech because of the Kremlin's long history of cracking down on pro-democracy voices, and the banning of non-Russian-developed social media platforms,
she told CNA’s Asia First on Thursday I'm sure the French authorities are going to look at that and say if you are going to be the means by which criminal acts take place, then you do have to have to be held accountable,
I was absolutely unaware of Mr Durov's arrival in France, and that is quite normal,
Macron told a news conference in Serbia It's clear that if they take this case against Pavel Durov all the way, any other platform could be threatened with the same thing,
lawyer Guillaume Martine told AFP It does raise a lot of red flags to see these charges, which seem random and also are just not very convincing,
said Penfrat, suggesting it was like trying to blame a knife-maker for a stabbing