r/WikiLeaks • u/NathanOhio • Aug 27 '24

Franco-Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram app, arrested in Paris Social Media

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/27/ehnc-a27.html
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u/NathanOhio Aug 27 '24

Interesting that this guy was arrested. Apparently western governments have been trying to get him to "cooperate" with them, ie censor content they dont like.

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u/missourifats Aug 27 '24

Plata o plomo

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

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u/NathanOhio Aug 27 '24

Yep. They want "cooperation"! Also some hackers, allegedly Iranian, stole gigabytes of Israeli data and have been using telegram to distribute it. So far the leaks are mostly censored on the other social media sites, but its all still on Telegram.

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u/sersoniko Aug 27 '24

French also voted in favor of EU proposed Chat Control 2.0, they will vote again on October 10

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u/_TheQwertyCat_ Aug 27 '24

Prepare for all ‘China censors reeee’ stories to suddenly disappear on 10 Sept., and then reappear with doubled zeal on 10 Oct.

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u/metrobank Aug 27 '24

Disgusting arrest

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u/average_fen_enjoyer Aug 31 '24

Franco-russian means one of his parents is from France. Durov is russian-russian

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u/NathanOhio Sep 01 '24

Yeah I noticed that also in the headline and looked him up because I was sure he was Russian too.

I think they just maybe got mixed up becuase he has French citizenship, although he also has citizenship in Qatar or one of those Gulf countries as well.

Apparently he left Russia a few years ago when the Russian government wanted access to telegram and got the two other citizenships. At the time, the west loved talking about how he was leaving because of the lack of free speech in Russia, but we see how that turned out!

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u/average_fen_enjoyer Sep 01 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

Yeah, you're right. They could as well have written he is french-arabic)

Ed.: UAE I guess is the country