On Saturday, we reported on the CEO of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, getting taken into custody at a French airport by government officials, on an arrest warrant accusing the website of failing to moderate content that was allegedly used in criminal activity.
This is a concerning threat to free speech when a government will do something like that and it’s a threat to any social media platform. If they can do it to Telegram they can to it to X. We’ve already seen various efforts to go after Elon Musk. But this type of move is especially troubling when a CEO is arrested like this.
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