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Not a good year for us poors.

Getting increasingly worried about our stance towards privacy.

Not a good year for us poors.

Getting increasingly worried about our stance towards privacy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/

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yeah, bad news but we hope it'll resolve quickly and he gets out of there asap

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Honestly disgusting on our part though. Arresting an Emirati/Russian citizen for writing privacy-preserving software is lunacy.

Yeah, it’s that new reality we live in, but also we don’t know even a quarter of all the reasons or info they could have on him to arrest, and we’ll never know

I agree. If he just owns just a secure platform, then police's logic could also mean that, well, drug dealers are using credit cards, let's block them, and every other technology they use 😆

Honestly unless he was quite literally trafficking humans or drugs himself (or was knowingly & deliberately aiding those who were), with substantial proof being made available alongside an accusation like that, I'm going to see it as massive over-reach.