Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
www.bbc.com
The billionaire was detained in Paris and is being investigated in relation to a lack of moderation on the messaging app.
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Lawyers always say that. It would be newsworthy if a lawyer said the charges were reasonable and well-founded.

  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Also in article, Elon Musk shits himself loudly again hoping someone will pay attention to him.

  • euAppleHater@lemm.eeEnglish
    1322·
    2 months ago

    EU: “Why aren’t there many homegrown major Tech companies here?”

    Also EU: “Let’s arrest this tech company CEO because he allows users to send encrypted messages to each other, and won’t “moderate” them by holding the keys, decrypting the messages, and sharing them with law enforcement when asked.”

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      145·
      2 months ago

      The app is accused of failure to cooperate with law enforcement over drug trafficking, child sexual content and fraud.

      That is, authorities know that that stuff happens on the platform, probably by infiltrating groups, and telegram refused to take actions which would’ve been within their powers to aid in getting a hand on those people. Actions which probably were court-ordered. That, indeed, is being accessory to crimes. I say throw the book at him, lock him up, and confiscate his property as being profits of crimes.

      There’s one single way to avoid sending data to police when they have evidence that something criminal is going on: Don’t have that data. Which brings us then to the next topic, and that’s that Telegram is not actually a secure platform.

      • Pedo hunter @lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        69·
        2 months ago

        The year is 1994 and Vint Cerf and Rob Kahn have just been arrestedTheir invention (TCP/IP) is being used for drug dealers to communicate with each other and they were unwilling to install a back door

        The equivalent version of this just happened with Telegram

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          52·
          2 months ago

          Nah it’s the equivalent of an ISP refusing to follow a surveillance court order.

          You can engineer things such that doing that is impossible, and it’s perfectly legal to do so. It’s also not what telegram is doing.