French authorities should have approached company with their complaints and app is not an ‘anarchic paradise’, Durov writes on channel
said early on Friday that French authorities should have approached his company with their complaints rather than detaining him and called his arrest “misguided”.
He 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. ‘We need to inject some passion’: Young Scottish independence activists think the movement has lost verveThe guru showing Alternative for Germany how to use social media to win votes and influence young people
“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.”
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