The CEO of Telegram was just arrested for not following censorship laws in France.

Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country.

He's facing 20 years in prison.

This affects us all here.

Prepare accordingly.

The next Pavel Durov should set up shop in the USA, get a US passport and never leave. First Amendment protection is important.

From what I’ve read so far, French police arrested Pavel Durov for a lack of sufficient moderation to keep “illegal activity” off of the Telegram platform. Sure, there’s illegal activity on Telegram, but let’s be honest; the “illegal activity” excuse just sounds like a pretext to shutdown a platform that allows real freedom of political speech.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/hapaperspective/14558

Shocking.......

@AltSkull48

I know everyone would like to feel nice and special and assume that everything happens because of their own actions in the world, but I would not exclude the possibility that Durov was pinched due to the rampant drug dealing, black market trading, scams and child pornography on the platform.
One of the few advantages of becoming old is that you can draw on experience to assess situations. I remember a time when another libertarian tech entrepreneur, a Mr. Ross Ulbricht was arrested and thrown in prison. All the lolberts were convinced that the feds were pinching Ulbricht because they were afraid of bitcoin toppling the US dollar, but in reality, Ulbricht was pinched because he facilitated drug dealing, black market trading, scams, sharing of CP and hired killings.
“Why now?” Well, as someone who spent 7 years as a lawyer and whose family is lousy with lawyers, I’ll tell you one thing: the wheels of justice turn slowly. Proceedings move glacially at the best of times, let alone when you’re dealing with a wealthy and connected suspect.

I don’t outright disagree with Nix here, but there is a critical difference between Durov’s Telegram and Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road — the latter was created explicitly for illegal activity like selling drugs and hiring hitmen — whereas Telegram is a freespeech peach/communication-privacy app that just so happens to also be used by criminals for criminal purposes.

It’s like the difference between operating a whore house vs. operating a liquor store in a ghetto and some criminal activity happens on the premises of the latter. The liquor store is still a legitimate, legal business engaged in legal commerce.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/hapaperspective/14563

This doesn’t mean Nix is wrong, because different countries have different laws that assign liability differently.

Every social media platform is used for crime. Every one.

Most of them censor “racism and antisemitism”. The one who doesn’t is suddenly arrested and you expect me to take it at face value?

Sorry guy, no fucking sale here.

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One of the most unfortunate side effects of rightoid midwittery has been to convince young white men that young white women being liberal makes them toxic, undateable or genetically unfit in some way. In reality, young white women’s liberalism is in most cases a case of bad software that needs purging by strong male leadership (which we used to know how to provide). Just steer clear of the tiny minority that are genuinely ugly and insane and you should be fine. The absolutely worst thing you could do is debauch your bloodline by producing mentally unstable mixed race children who’ll endure suffering and alienation beyond belief.

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