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Pavel Dorov speaks and telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest.

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Pavel Duroov has spoken, calling his arrest by French authorities misguided and denying telegram is in quote, anarchic paradise in his first public comment since his detention

quoting the guardian. The Russian-born multi-billionaire said the

investigation into the app was surprising in that French authorities had access to

a hotline he had helped set up and they could

have contacted telegrams EU representative at any time. If a country is unhappy with

an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action

against the service itself.

He wrote, using laws from the pre-smart phone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third

parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach, end quote. Telegram, he said, was not perfect, but he denied any abuse associated with the app.

But the claims in some media that telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue,

he wrote.

We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day, end quote.

Well, interestingly, without much fanfare,

telegram seems to have radically altered its stance on illegal use of its platform by

letting users and private chats now flag illegal content for review by

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