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Telegram founder and chief government Pavel Durov on Thursday hit out at France for arresting and charging him final month over the publication of extremist and unlawful content material on the favored messaging app.
In a prolonged put up on Telegram, his first remark since his arrest, Durov mentioned it was “stunning” he was being held liable for different individuals’s content material.
“Utilizing legal guidelines from the pre-smartphone period to cost a CEO with crimes dedicated by third events on the platform he manages is a misguided strategy,” he mentioned.
He additionally lashed out at claims that “Telegram is a few form of anarchic paradise” as “completely unfaithful”, insisting: “We take down thousands and thousands of dangerous posts and channels day by day.”
He denied accusations from France that Paris had not obtained responses from Telegram to its requests, saying he had personally helped French authorities “set up a hotline with Telegram to cope with the specter of terrorism in France”.
– ‘Rising pains’ –
However putting a extra conciliatory tone on the finish of his message, Durov mentioned Telegram’s hovering consumer numbers — which he now put at 950 million worldwide — “prompted rising pains that made it simpler for criminals to abuse our platform”.
“That is why I made it my private aim to make sure we considerably enhance issues on this regard,” he mentioned, including that this was being labored out “internally” and extra particulars can be shared sooner or later.
“I hope that the occasions of August will end in making Telegram — and the social networking business as an entire — safer and stronger.”
He mentioned that when Telegram couldn’t agree on the “proper stability between privateness and safety” with native regulators then “we’re prepared to depart that nation”.
Durov, 39, was charged after 4 days beneath arrest in France on a number of counts of failing to curb extremist and unlawful content material on Telegram.
He has obtained assist from fellow tech tycoon and chief government of X, Elon Musk, who posted feedback beneath the hashtag #FreePavel.
Durov was arrested on August 24 at Le Bourget airport outdoors Paris after arriving aboard a personal jet and questioned within the subsequent days by investigators.
He was granted conditional launch on a bail of 5 million euros ($5.5 million) and on the situation that he should report back to a police station twice every week in addition to remaining in France.
An enigmatic determine who not often speaks in public, Durov is a citizen of Russia, France and the United Arab Emirates, the place Telegram is predicated.
Forbes journal estimates his present fortune at $15.5 billion, although he proudly promotes the virtues of an ascetic life that features ice baths and never consuming alcohol or espresso.
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