When Pavel Durov, a Russian tech entrepreneur who founded the Telegram messenger app, was arrested in Paris on Aug. 24 on accusations of allowing terrorism to blossom on his platform, Ukraine watched it closely. He was charged by a Paris court on Aug. 28. In Ukraine, the charges against Durov
  • doo@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The facts are:

    • russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
    • eventually they “convinced” durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
    • in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything

    Yes, I don’t have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.