But the situation is complicated by the fact that he is also a citizen of France,
An investigating judge has ended Pavel Durov's police custody and will have him brought to court for a first appearance and a possible indictment,
At this stage, the only person being questioned in this case is Pavel Durov,
Do you think this time they'll appeal to Paris and demand Durov's release?"
Durov might be forced to cooperate with the authorities in France and the U.S., who have long wanted to get inside Telegram. It's crucial to understand that Telegram is no longer just a messenger like it was before. It has grown into a giant ecosystem with an internal wallet and its own cryptocurrency. Many people are eager to get a piece of this lucrative pie. The state has been trying for a long time to expand its monopoly over how people communicate, what they say, and how they spend their money,
I think Telegram will continue to operate, and its cryptocurrencies will survive—I certainly hope so. But the world is becoming increasingly closed off and less free, and that’s a reality we have to face,
France just arrested Pavel Durov, founder & CEO of the encrypted, uncensored Telegram platform. The need to protect free speech has never been more urgent."
It's 2030 in Europe, and you’re being executed for liking a meme."
Let’s not forget that large corporations, hiding behind the state, have also tried to interfere with Telegram. Take Apple, for instance—they impose a 30% commission on everything on iPhones and even blocked creators from collecting donations within Telegram simply because Telegram wasn’t giving them their 30% cut. There's no such VAT in any country, yet Apple collects this kind of commission. In response, Durov had to come up with new features like Telegram's internal currencies,
I suggest banning words. There's evidence that terrorists use them to communicate."
It's about management on the ground,
Telegram is one of the few and, at the same time, the largest Internet platforms over which the United States has no influence,
They require a no less serious basis of evidence. Otherwise they will be a direct attempt to limit freedom of communication,
We tallied the questions with the original UGC-NET questions and they matched… All these activities took place on Telegram these days. It is a challenge to track the complex nature of Telegram without a high level investigation.”
One of the most rampant scams on Telegram is investment fraud in which a user is added to a group and is suggested to invest their money in stocks on a fake application which mirrors a legitimate stock trading app,
If paper leak is taking place through Telegram, WhatsApp and electronic means, then it spreads like wildfire."
This scam is where most people are losing their money on Telegram,
The accusations are very serious indeed, and they require an equally serious basis of evidence,
Purging communications is utter stupidity. Officials should not use messengers for official purposes. No messenger is reliable in terms of information security — not even Telegram. […] Therefore, of course, no one is asking anyone to clean anything,
In other words, it would be exactly the politics that Mr. Macron denied yesterday in this story,