Free Pavel Durov! Or lock him up! I honestly don't know!
What do you do about an app used by bad guys *and* good guys?
The Russian-born founder of the Telegram messaging app was arrested in France this weekend, for allegedly failing to sufficiently moderate its content:
The chief executive officer of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested at an airport on Saturday night outside Paris and placed in custody for alleged offenses related to the messaging app, according to French media.
The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire was reportedly accused of failing to mitigate the misuse of his platform for criminal activities.
France’s Ofmin, which is responsible for safeguarding minors from violence, issued an arrest warrant for Durov over accusations of organized crime, drug trafficking, fraud, cyberbullying and the promotion of terrorism on his platform, news agency AFP reported citing a source.
And after researching the issue and musing on it for a few days, my learned, definitive position is…
…that I have no idea whether this is good or not.
On one hand, the worst people all seem to be up in arms about it:
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