And the Good evening. It's Monday, August 26. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show that appears every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

As you can probably see, I am not in our normal studio. I'm traveling due to some reporting, but I think we can make do we should have a

studio for the rest of the week and we have I think an extremely important story to

dissect and to analyze and that is that the billionaire founder of the

encrypted app telegram was arrested over the weekend by the French

national police when his private jet landed in an airport just outside of Paris.

French authorities have now confirmed that he is in detention and

the intention specifically because the prosecutors have created a theory that the creator and founder and CEO of

Telegram, which is intended to be an encrypted app designed to safeguard the privacy of its

users, has become quote complicit criminally

complicit as a result not of anything that the founders of

telegram are doing or that its executives are doing but that other people unknown to

telegram what they are doing on the platform and that by failing to censor the

platform by failing to shut down channels of the demand of the French government.

The owner and founder of Telegram has himself become criminally responsible.

This is a major escalation of the war against any sort of attempt to preserve internet freedom.

Now, if you stop and think about it, this has been a theory that has long been bubbling, the idea

that if leaders or owners or managers or executives of various platforms don't censor information

that the government instruct

them to censor that that becomes a criminal felony. The only actual example of

any previous social manager executive being actually arrested for failing to turn over

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