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Was the Arrest of Telegram's CEO Inevitable?


Casey Newton, former senior editor at the Verge, weighs in on Platformer about the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. "Fending off onerous speech regulations and overzealous prosecutors requires that platform builders act responsibly. Telegram never even pretended to." Officially, Telegram's ...

Casey Newton, former senior editor at the Verge, weighs in on Platformer about the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Officially, Telegram's terms of service prohibit users from posting illegal pornographic content or promotions of violence on public channels. The article asks whether France's action "will emboldencountries around the world to prosecute platform CEOs criminally for failing to turn over user data."

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