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Telegram chief’s arrest sends a clear message: tech titans are not above the law
The detainment of the murky messaging service’s founder in France shows the online moguls can no longer act with impunity
On 24 August, a Russian tech billionaire’s private jet landed at Le Bourget airport, north-east of Paris, to find that officers of the French judicial police were waiting for him. Four days later he was indicted on 12 charges, including alleged complicity in the distribution of child exploitation material and drug trafficking, barred from leaving France and placed under “judicial supervision”, which requires him to check in with the gendarmes twice a week until further notice. Well, just about the time that Durov’s plane was touching down in Le Bourget, a judge in a US district court was handing down a landmark judgment indicating that the free ride provided to corporations by section 230 may be coming to an end.
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