Telegram CEO reportedly arrested in France

The founder of the popular messaging app Telegram was reportedly arrested in France. The app is used by nearly a billion people.

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[WhiteLeper]

Who gave France world jurisdiction to arrest people from other countries that don’t comply with their ‘free speech’ standards ?

[thatguy]

If you build a road… and people speed on it… do you arrest the person that built the road?

[mynameisnotcory]

Arrested by France* ‘for free speech implications’

[waterlevelroute]

Why not arrest the cellular providers as well. Oh and the electrical company, what did they do to prevent illegal activity on their network??

[The_left_hand_pillar]

I'm increasingly thinking Europe is no more free than Russia

[someone]

Bruh if they'd take it seriously we wouldn't have Snapchat, tiktok, Facebook, insta, all that other crap cause a lot of sus stuff happens on all

[kevinburnes]

You will own nothing, you will eat bugs, and you WILL be happy.

[AntoineTroupe]

What about all of the illegal stuff happening in iMessage?

[truthprevails]

Number of Telegram users worldwide: 950 million. CEO arrested for charge: allows crime on its app due to lack of moderation!

Number of citizens in France: 68 million. Plenty of crime. So many citizens got killed at various locations in France. Now, who is responsible for these crimes? CEO of France?
Who should get arrested?

[wzzbmmn]

Germany is just an empty puppet doing the bidding of the puppet master

[ezkempinkemp]

Same thing as suing gun manufacturers, or someone illegally using their equipment.

[lousclue]

The bootlickers cheering for this are a lost cause. If governments had a back door into telegram this wouldn’t be an issue. It’s all about control.

[ColderThanU]

How is he supposed to find every person who commits a crime isnt that the polices job

[takeamericaback]

Why are they allowed to make laws against our rights

[jonnyfavors]

Zuckerberg should be right with this guy...are they serious!??

[ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Just make an account & arrest the people. Its not the companies job to do the police's job!

[corman]

This is the first step in the eventual arrest of Elon. 1984 in now.

[ewave]

Literally all I’ve heard of about telegram is when child predators get caught

[BigEightiesNewWave]

Arsonists have used X-brand of gasoline, so they will arrest the CEO of the refiner arsonist used.

[d.j]

Schould a knife manufacturer be put in jail, if someone uses his knife to hurt someone?

Schould the federal reserve be outlawed, if US Dollars are being used to pay for illegal Drugs, prostitution or other crimes?