Telegram, a cloud-based messaging app popular with drugs gangs, pedos, terrorists, and "dissident" political movements, appears to be under attack by Western Deep States, with the arrest of the company's owner in France.
As reported by the BBC:
Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old billionaire was arrested under a warrant for offences related to the popular messaging app. The investigation is reportedly about a lack of moderators, with Mr Durov accused of failing to take steps to curb criminal uses of Telegram.
Russia has taken this opportunity to cynically criticise France and the West for "totalitarian tendencies." As reported by Reuters:
"Russia's representative to international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, and several other Russian politicians were quick on Sunday to accuse France of acting as a dictatorship - the same criticism that Moscow faced when putting demands on Durov in 2014 and trying to ban Telegram in 2018. 'Some naive persons still don't understand that if they play more or less visible role in international information space it is not safe for them to visit countries which move towards much more totalitarian societies,; Ulyanov wrote on X."
While Durov has posed as an "anti-Putin figure" in the past, his relations with the Kremlin are probably a lot more ambiguous today, as Putin has a pretty solid track record of assassinating any Russian billionaire abroad who crosses him, and Durov is still in the best of health.
Also, Durov effectively sold his former VK social media site to the Kremlin soon after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014.
Also, Durov effectively sold his former VK social media site to the Kremlin soon after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014.
The most likely explanation for the recent French action is that Durov has allowed his site to serve as a highly encrypted message service to support various Kremlin ops in the West and in parts of France's "post-colonial" Empire in Africa. In 2022, a few months into the present Ukrainian War, Telegram users were able to purchase anonymous numbers through Durov’s own Fragment blockchain and use these to sign up for Telegram instead of using their own phone number. How very convenient!
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