France Fully Lifts Travel Ban on Telegram Founder Durov

An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024 and is under formal investigation by French authorities over the platform's alleged complicity in criminal activity. Durov, who was initially banned from leaving France, had his judicial control relaxed in July, allowing him to reside in the United Arab Emirates, where Telegram is based, for a maximum of two weeks at a time.

Investigation over illegal content

[sinij]

The case against Durov is beyond ridiclous, where French investigative courts (equivalent to prosecutor's office in US, but with more powers) charged him as accessory to crimes that possibly involved Telegram. Then they used that as a threat to try to pressure Durov into implementing backdoor into Telegram.

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[ArmoredDragon]

I'm going to take the unpopular opinion that there is merit to this idea. After that all went down, he went on to found Brave, which now has a larger share of users than Firefox. It would be nice to have fewer chromium browsers. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the users who dropped firefox over that nothingburger have already forgotten about the whole thing and now use some chromium fork, if not even Brave itself.

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[Baloo Uriza]

It's illegal to promote fascism or host content that does in France. They should have gone after him for that, since there's only three groups on Telegram, 1) Gay furries, 2) American nazis, and 3) Russian nazis. The latter two groups are enough to hang the man, and they should.

Wire

[bill_mcgonigle]

I'm not sure if Wire has new management but I just recently learned they've gone fully open source, are working on federation, and are using an RFC-specified tree-based efficient group chat encryption algorithm. RCS is eventually meant to adopt the same algorithm.

Folks using Telegram Groups (which are unencrypted, actually) might have a look. Yeah, somebody needs to run a server if you don't want intelligence agencies to provide one for you.

I uninstalled Wire years ago when they wouldn't take privacy seriou

Wasn't he

[pele]

One of 2-3 people granted emirati citizenship? Ever.

GTFO and stay outta France

[MIPSPro]

Bruh needs to build himself am armed villa in Somalia and just turn the screws on the EU even more while thumbing his nose. Fix Telegram by removing all the backdoors and exceptions. That or just erase the fucking thing and install Signal. Problem solved.

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[Baloo Uriza]

Bruh needs to stop promoting nazism and get off his delusional billionaire high horse.