• 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.
  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    French authorities have accused the Telegram co-founder of enabling illicit activities on the messaging app.

    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.

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      1 day 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.