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Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools,
Intelligence agencies are doing their job. France is a wonderful and beautiful country, just like many other Western countries,
If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,
We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day,
Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger,
Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950 [million] caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,
But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue,
In 2018, when we came to Europe, we had the idea to settle in France,
I think this is something that is very good for our country and I will continue to do so,
We are in touch with the French authorities about this case and Pavel Durov’s representatives,
They’ve known each other for quite some time,
Various Eurojust partners, notably Belgium, shared the same observation,
It’s almost as if he was a nobody,
I’ve done a lot of work to help entrepreneurs, with stuff like granting visas, but the question of citizenship never came up,
The person concerned refused Russian consular protection and an Emirati consular visit but agreed that the Emirati embassy be kept up to date on his situation,
The only statement I wish to make is that Telegram is in conformity with every aspect of European norms on digital matters,
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people's illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn't receive responses from Telegram,
Sometimes we can't agree with a country's regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country,