- Pavel Durov has posted on Telegram following his return to Dubai after being held in France since being detained last year.
- French authorities have accused the Telegram co-founder of enabling illicit activities on the messaging app.
- Durov has received an outpouring of support since being detained.
Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France to go to Dubai, reportedly after a judge authorized him to leave the country for “several weeks”; the investigation is ongoing.
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
This is so laughable, because it’s blatant selective enforcement.
If he’s guilty, then Facebook/Meta/Google, etc, etc, are guilty too - even more guilty by orders of magnitude.
They just have the government connections to protect them.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Telegram is so much worse. Last time I checked Meta and Google at least tried to keep illegal activity of the platform.
Telegram is home child porn, human trafficking and drug dealers. I would understand if they couldn’t take stuff down due to cryptography but in this case they choose to ignore it as it passed though and was stored totally unencrypted.