One meta-note on the situation, is that in my timeline I have seen exactly zero non-western people defending Durov's arrest, but quite a few western people.

Definitely don't want to say that they don't exist (after all, my timeline is biased just like anyone's), just this is what my sample is so far.

IMO this is another example of the decoupling of liberalism and westernism that https://x.com/MacaesBruno often talks about.

The rule of law, equality before the law, and the right to a fair trial are all liberal values (among others, of course). So I think you can support liberalism without necessarily being against the investigation/arrest. What matters are the specific charges, and evidence which we don't know yet.

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A jury of his peers evaluating the facts of this particular case and the meaning of the law in this particular case is not a bad system. I much prefer it to anything-goes-anarchy.

Because I have not been presented with the all the facts of this case or the specific law, I have yet to form an informed opinion on it. I feel all we have right now are individuals with a lot of righteous indignation cherry-picking details to fit their own particular ossified worldview.