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There's no evidence it's purely political. In France the citizens want tech companies to cooperate with authorities to prevent the spread of CSAM. Durov is a
by muglug 2y ago
There's no evidence it's purely political.
In France the citizens want tech companies to cooperate with authorities to prevent the spread of CSAM.
Durov is a French citizen. His tech company does not cooperate with authorities. The authorities wanted to have a chat with him about that. Most discussions in Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning Telegram could probably do much more to stop the spread of CSAM.
It's not just about CSAM — they mention terrorism, and the French authorities also probably also want to know what sort of deal he made with Russia to allow him to travel freely to and from that country after they attempted to ban Telegram.
- orwin 2y ago> There's no evidence it's purely political. There is a lot of evidence it's not. In France, the executive power (president, government, prefect) always ask a "procureur" to indict someone (issue a warrant and direct the police). In this very case, it's a "Juge d'instruction", which are notoriously independent (And it caused enough issues to have a Sarkozy/Dati law that tried to curtail this liberty around 2010, and still you have conservatives and far-right people asking for less initiative from this kind of judges (one of them ordered former president Sarkozy's phone to be put under surveillance). Unless someone can draw a direct line from the OFMIN judge to Macron, i consider people talking about "political" bullshitter.