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Pavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegram (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Granted. I was mainly thinking from the angle of "how to I keep the prosecution from having a slam-dunk case against Durov" here.

Also, it seems my expectations from privacy nuts were a bit higher than I expected.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the prosecution will have a hard time, but I don't know anything about French internet law. But if it's a weird-ass protection deal to keep Durov out of Russia's hands, it might just be smoke and mirrors anyway.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

I don’t know anything about French internet law.

Same here, I'll admit