Pavel Durov

Now that people are aware of Chinese apps, they are going to start migrating off of these spying and censorship apps controlled by the West.

Until all the Chinese apps get banned.

RT:

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has pledged to strengthen moderation efforts on his social media platform, speaking before a French court on Friday, according to Franceinfo.

The Russian tech mogul, who also holds citizenship in France, the UAE, and St. Kitts and Nevis, was arrested in Paris in August 2024. The French authorities charged him with over a dozen offenses related to illegal content on Telegram, including complicity in the distribution of child pornography and enabling drug trafficking, among other allegations.

Durov was eventually released on bail of €5 million ($5.15 million), but was prohibited from leaving France and required to report to local police twice a week.

During Friday’s hearing, Durov told the court that Telegram is committed to “improving its moderation procedures,” Franceinfo reported. He explained that the platform deletes “between 15 and 20 million user accounts for breaking the law” each month and argued that Telegram is not alone in facing these challenges.

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When the judges pointed out that many of these moderation initiatives were launched after his arrest in August, Durov said that only at that point was he made “aware of the seriousness of all these facts.”

Durov further stated that Telegram has increased cooperation with the authorities worldwide to combat illegal activity. Over the past six months, the platform has provided user data from approximately 10,000 accounts to law enforcement agencies globally.

See: Following CEO’s Arrest in France, Telegram Censor Speech, Hand Over Data

Durov didn’t want to do this. They kidnapped him and forced him to do it.

Nonetheless, the company is going to be useless.

The reason it was big in the first place is that they allowed so much more freedom than Twitter or Facebook.

If they’re going to censor just as much, there is no reason to use the app.

🚨TELEGRAM TO SHARE PHONE NUMBERS AND IP ADDRESSES OF ‘BAD ACTORS’ WITH AUTHORITIES

Telegram has updated its terms of service to share the phone numbers and IP addresses of users violating its rules with authorities, founder Pavel Durov announced.

Previously, data was only… pic.twitter.com/EO43uSFYLs

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 23, 2024

When they come and arrest you because you’re not censoring enough, what are you supposed to do?

The only thing you can do is censor more.

Free speech is completely impossible in a democracy, because the government won’t allow private actors to provide the public with free speech platforms.

The Guardian:

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content” and would take a more proactive approach to complying with government requests. The announcement comes weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using the app.

Telegram’s search feature “has been abused by people who violated our terms of service to sell illegal goods”, Durov told the 13 million subscribers of his personal messaging channel.

“Over the past few weeks” staff had combed through Telegram using artificial intelligence to ensure “all the problematic content we identified in Search is no longer accessible”, he said.

Durov added that the platform had updated its terms of service and privacy policy to make clear that it would share infringers’ details with authorities – including internet IP addresses and phone numbers – “in response to valid legal requests”.

This was obviously organized by “Big Daddy Anus” AKA “Uncle Slam Your Anus” AKA “Jewmerica.”

There’s no way the French could do this without US fedgov permission. French aren’t allowed to piss in the gym shower without America’s permission.

The US wanted Telegram censored, but they do this ultra-gay thing where they pretend they don’t arrest people for speech, so they just asked one of their bitch-boy countries to do it for them.

Democracy is a travesty of justice.

People deserve to have freedom, and it is clearly impossible to have freedom while living in democracy.

Democracy is the worst form of oppression in history, largely because they do all these stupid tricks to pretend like they’re not oppressing people, and they’ve made the public so fat and retarded that they believe the tricks.

🎉 Telegram has reached 10 million paid subscribers. 10 million people are now enjoying Telegram Premium!

🆕 Today, we’re introducing new features while phasing out a few outdated ones.

⛔️ We’ve removed the People Nearby feature, which was used by less than 0.1% of Telegram…

— Pavel Durov (@durov) September 6, 2024

Previously: Pavel Durov Issues Statement Regarding His Strange Arrest in France

What the hell is even going on here?

Why was this man arrested?

Why did he go to France? Didn’t someone warn him this was coming down? He’s a billionaire. Don’t they have connections to intelligence and so on? What is the point of being a billionaire if you can’t even get a “heads up” about an arrest coming down on you in France?

Whatever. Who knows.

As I predicted, they are changing the rules about content in response to the arrest.

This is how democracy work: they kidnap you and force you to do things against your will, under threat of torture.

The Guardian:

The chief executive of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has announced the messaging app will improve moderation on the platform and has removed some features that have been used for illegal activity.

The app’s founder unveiled the changes on Friday hours after calling his arrest by the French authorities last month “misguided”. Durov has since been charged with allegedly allowing criminal activity on the app.

Did you know the Arabs were selling Filipino maids on Facebook Marketplace? It took them years to ban it and it’s probably still happening.

Was Mark Zuckerberg arrested by the French for that? I forget.

I’m not even saying Zuckerberg should be charged for that. I’m just saying this Telegram thing is fake. When you have a platform with hundreds of millions of users, you can’t possibly be expected to police the whole thing.

In a post on X, he said the messaging app was “committed to turn moderation on Telegram from an area of criticism into one of praise”.

The changes announced by Durov included removing the app’s “people nearby” feature, which he said had “issues with bots and scammers”, and replacing it with “businesses nearby”, featuring legitimate businesses; and disabling media uploads on the app’s blogging tool, Telegraph, which Durov said was being “misused by anonymous actors”.

The Verge, a tech news site, also reported that Telegram has removed references on its FAQ page to private chats being protected and that requests to moderate them would not be processed. A spokesperson told the site that the app’s source code had not changed but users could report a new chat to moderators.

Durov added that Telegram’s nearly 1 billion users had been let down by a minority.

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“While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk,” he said.

It’s not actually about criminality. Again, Facebook was running an open slave market for years on end. That’s true. Click the CNN link above or look it up yourself. People were complaining like “yo, Zuck, why you running a slave market???” and he was like “yeah, we’ll get to that at some point in the future.”

Governments do not care about child porn or human trafficking or any of the other things they’re accusing Durov of.

What they care about is people talking about Jews and other things you’re not allowed to talk about. They care about people posting videos of what is going on in Palestine. They care about unsanctioned opinion.

That’s the only thing they care about.

This case against Durov is from the American feds. They just used their little bitch-boy France to do their dirty work. Every European state is just a little bitch for Washington.

️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

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.…

— Pavel Durov (@durov) September 6, 2024

I’m still trying to understand what happened in France. But we hear the concerns. I made it my personal goal to prevent abusers of Telegram’s platform from interfering with the future of our 950+ million users.

My full post below. https://t.co/cDvRSodjst

— Pavel Durov (@durov) September 5, 2024

JUST IN: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov posts statement regarding last months arrest in France: pic.twitter.com/qEPYU5hnFF

— wallstreetbets (@wallstreetbets) September 5, 2024

The Telegram guy was released on bail, but he’s not allowed to leave France.

France is a democracy, and that means they need to have total control of information so they can control people’s thoughts. Our Democracy simply cannot work if the government does not have the ability to control everyone’s thoughts. The whole thing will just fall apart.

They want more censorship. Telegram is already far from being a “free” platform, but it needs to really get shut down hard in order to protect the sanctity of the most sacred thing ever: democracy.

This arrest is a warning to everyone: the government will not only charge your company with crimes, they will arrest you personally, and destroy you. You must censor everything, or democracy will crush you like an insect.

The Guardian:

The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, under investigation in France, has said that French authorities should have approached his company with their complaints rather than detaining him, calling the arrest “misguided”.

Durov, writing on his Telegram channel early on Friday in his first public comments since his detention last month, denied any suggestion the app was an “anarchic paradise”.

The Russian-born multi-billionaire said the investigation into the app was surprising in that French authorities had access to a “hot line” he had helped set up and they could have contacted Telegram’s EU representative at any time.

“If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,” he wrote.

“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.”

Durov was on the Tucker Carlson show a few weeks ago, and he talked about how every time he goes to the US, he is swarmed by the FBI. He said last time he brought his programmer, and the FBI tried to recruit the programmer behind his back.

🚨 PAVEL DUROV: THE U.S. WANTED TO CONTROL TELEGRAM BETTER

“We get too much attention from the FBI and other security agencies whenever we come to the U.S.

The last time I was in the U.S., I brought an engineer who works for Telegram.

There was an attempt by cybersecurity… pic.twitter.com/DUpz4j5TpX

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 24, 2024

Probably, the France arrest is on the orders of the US.

The US doesn’t like to do things like arrest people for free speech, because they have this whole gay branding that they somehow support free speech. This is complete bullshit, and you can ask Andrew Anglin about that one.

But all of these European countries are the little bitch errand boys of Uncle Sam, so they will just arrest whoever the State Department tells them to arrest.

It looks like Durov is going to make a deal, and then there will be a lot more censorship on Telegram. I don’t know what other possible outcome there could be here.