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Russians do everything via Telegram. They are recruiting agents and people for counter-activities. Today in Ukraine, a popular campaign is to recruit people who would burn Ukrainian military cars. And it is quite successful. They coordinate their military efforts using it,
You just install the free app and get easy access to buying guns, drugs, explicit and violent content … anything. It is all available simply by searching. And this is not so easily available anywhere in other messengers,
I think that the Russians are panicking because they are trying to predict possible outcomes for their essential communications tool and are trying to protect themselves and remove information from there. But everything will depend on the French government and the courts — whether they will imprison Durov, or come to an agreement and release him and he in return will provide them with some information — we do not know yet,
Everyone who is used to using the platform for sensitive conversations/conversations should delete those conversations right now and not do it again,
Kremlin propagandist and foreign ministry spokesperson Margarita Simonyan said in a Telegram post They practically detained the head of communication of the Russian army,
Russian military blogger channel Povernutie na Z Voine said in a Telegram statement I’m reading false information about France following the arrest of Pavel Durov,
Telegram’s moderators are actively monitoring the situation and are removing channels and posts containing calls to violence,
Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn said in a statement at the time It’s hard to get in touch with Telegram and make arrangements,
a Dutch minister explained in January when grilled by local lawmakers on a media report about illegal drugs offered via public Telegram chats This includes removing illegal content, cooperating with national authorities, [and] respecting removal orders when national authorities make such orders,
European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told POLITICO Telegram has historically had problems with regulators in some parts of the world because, unlike other services, we consistently defended our users’ privacy and have never made any deals with governments,
Durov wrote in 2017, having fled Russia years earlier after refusing to shut down opposition groups on VKontakte We have exchanges with the platform, with all the platforms, including Telegram. When we ask something [of] Telegram, we get a reply,
At the heart of this case is the lack of moderation and cooperation of the platform (which has almost 1 billion users), in particular in the fight against crimes against children,
Jean-Michel Bernigaud, the secretary general of Ofmin, wrote on LinkedIn In a state governed by the rule of law, freedoms are upheld within a legal framework, both on social media and in real life, to protect citizens and respect their fundamental rights,
The arrest of Pavel Durov confirmed that there has been no European or even global (pro-western) freedom of speech,
Sergei Mironov, a veteran Russian ultra-nationalist politician and ally of Vladimir Putin, said in a statement As someone who pays close attention to the politics and the media in the United Kingdom and Europe, I began to notice a shocking narrative emanating from a growing number on the left there calling for the arrest of Elon Musk as well as the cancellation of X, the social media site he owns. Surely I thought, these people can’t be serious. But they were — and are — deadly serious. For them, Musk and X have become public enemy number one,
It is up to the judiciary, in full independence, to enforce the law,
We’re awaiting a prompt resolution of this situation. Telegram is with you all,
It will be very sad and at the same time funny if the catalyst for changes in approaches to communications and control in the [Russian] armed forces is the arrest of Pavel Durov,
Pavel Durov was arrested. This attack on the owner of [Telegram], on which half of the communications in the [war] are held, was expected. Now we urgently need to create a Russian military messenger,
Well, was it impossible to think about this earlier?! Why did the Wagner Group have such a messenger, but the armed forces of our great Russia do not!?!?
Sladkov said, referring to the Russian paramilitary outfit which was led by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin