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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was released from French custody after he was arrested for allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app. The charges filed against Durov include complicity in managing an online platform to enable illegal transactions, complicity in crimes such as enabling the distribution of child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, fraud and refusal to cooperate with law enforcement.

Fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center Doug Calidas joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss the latest.

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[DengShabu]

Telephones used every day to set up and commit crimes, are they going after ATT, Apple, etc.?

[furtrapper]

He picked the wrong country for dual citizenship

[thatShadowKat]

Meanwhile Roman Polanski is still a free man in France and won't extradite him.

[laramatthews]

UAE backed out of buying French fighter jets for $17B


Tomorrow the story will be Durov wasn't "arrested", he was just detained

[DaddyMac]

Nothing scares politicians more than people speaking the truth.

[MorningGlory]

He is NOT a free man. He was formally charged by a judge (for not giving France government backdoor access to accounts)

[chrisjohnston]

If Durov is guilty of these charges, then Tim Cook of APPLE should be found guilty of all crimes committed on APPLE iPhones, etc.,

[fayeshelton]

What about what Macron allowed at the Olympics? There was no censorship there

[clawmachinez]

Now he needs to flee the country and protect himself in an embassy that won’t extradite to France, anywhere else in the EU, or the US. Protect this guy at all costs. His platform is one of the last beacons of free speech.

[codelessunlimited]

French captured him because both US wanted the access of the platform because of Russia.
So much for freedom of the West and the rights from illegal seizures.

[johnghilduta]

This happening when the law which supposedly protects you becomes a weapon !

[Hongobogologomo]

what is happening across Europe is scary.
The last time European governments came for free speech this hard, well

we've all read the history books. God have mercy

[rockapedra]

Assange, Snowden, Durov ... How many does it take?

[fpl_dizz]

Your guest is wrong but what do you expect from Harvard? This is about freedom of speech and the privacy that each person deserves.

[bethyoung]

Unbelievably crazy. Should not have been arrested . This is total BS

[dmzjdpi]

Under this logic, if I own an apartment complex with 300 tenants, and some of them break the law, I can be held responsible for the crimes of someone else when I wasn't there, had no idea what was going on, and had no idea about the crime. Stupid.

[SherryONeill]

CanNot Those Accusations Be Made Against Every Single Social Media PlatForm?

[southernman]

After the opening of the Olympics and now this France is a fallen nation.

[wasabiginger]

The reason he got arrested is much bigger than what Mr Harvard is reporting!

[marilena]

I don't know. If police are investigating a specific crime, such as a certain child trafficking ring, and they have good reason to believe the perpetrators are communicating on Telegram, I should think they would be able to get a judge's warrant to access pertinent information. That's more or less the way it works with phone companies.
But are the French investigating a specific crime or just going on a fishing expedition? No judge, at least in the US, could rightly grant a warrant to rifle through a phone company's full records just to see if something criminal might be going on.
From what I've read SO FAR, it looks very fishy and, given the increasing contempt our ruling class shows for free speech and privacy,
I think we have good reason to be disturbed.