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Other French investigation services and public prosecutors' offices as well as various partners within Eurojust, in particular Belgian ones, shared the same observation,
about Telegram's lack of compliance, Beccuau said Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe,
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,
a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said An online platform of that importance with that large user base, even if it isn’t officially designated a VLOP, is just way too important in order to operate with that level of opaqueness,
If there is such a big problem with content moderation that it is actually criminally relevant … why hasn’t that been addressed under the DSA yet
said Jan Penfrat at the European Digital Rights group (EDRi), a coalition of NGOs It is purely a criminal investigation at national level, carried out by the French authorities … based on French criminal law,
We are now checking whether the figure is right,
If I were to touch that analogy of the car, I would say the question is the extent to which the taxi driver is complicit in giving a ride to the bank robber,
It could be that, within the investigation, there is a much more personal tie to the situation than exists at any other platform, in which case this organisation has simply crossed a line that no other platforms have, but the line was always there,
That threat of personal sanction is much more effective on executives than the risk of corporate fines,
Daisley wrote recently in The Guardian Knowledge is the key issue here,
said Keller, a former lawyer for Google It is encouraging to see the French government, French police, taking some action to potentially rectify this type of activity,
Moderators use a combination of proactive monitoring of public parts of the platform, AI tools, and user reports to remove content that breaches Telegram’s terms of service,
Telegram’s moderation practices are completely opaque — we really have no sense of how they operate. Likewise, we receive no confirmation or feedback from the company on the moderation outcome when we do report content into them. More importantly, it does not appear the platform itself is taking adequate proactive steps to curb the spread of CSAM on their service despite its known use for facilitating the exchange of this type of material,
They’ve been really, really clear on the team that they have no interest. We sporadically reach out, but it’s not frequent anymore,
Telegram is truly in a league of their own as far as their lack of content moderation or even interest in preventing child sexual exploitation activity on their platform,
Based on our observations, Telegram’s platform is increasingly being used to make CSAM available to offenders. In many cases, we see Telegram links or accounts advertised on web forums and even on U.S.-based mainstream social media platforms that act as a funnel to drive traffic to illegal Telegram-based content,
Do you think this time they'll appeal to Paris and demand Durov's release?"
Pavel Durov is a political prisoner—a victim of a witch-hunt by the West,