What Next TBD: Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?

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🗓️ 1 September 2024

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Telegram was supposed to be the platform with the freest of free speech, which meant it was also rife with the worst the internet has to offer—"criminal activity” puts it lightly. But are French authorities setting a dangerous precedent with the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov? Guest: Joseph Menn, tech reporter for the Washington Post covering privacy and security. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Last Saturday, Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app telegram, flew from Baku
0:29.3	Azerbaijan to Le Bourgégege Airport outside Paris.
0:33.0	But when Durov's plane touched down, he was arrested and taken off to jail.
0:37.0	Where he spent the next four days being questioned about stuff that happens on
0:43.1	telegram.
0:44.1	That's Joseph Mann, a tech reporter for the Washington Post who covers privacy
0:51.2	and security. Initially, the arrest was both shocking, CEO of a major
0:56.4	platform taken into custody, and kind of murky. It was unclear what was going on, only that it was
1:02.4	related to telegram.
1:04.0	Tonight telegram CEO, Pavel Durrov, in custody for alleged offenses related to his
1:09.7	widely popular private messaging and social media app.
1:13.9	It seemed actually sort of unplanned because there wasn't a lot of solid information in the
1:19.2	beginning and this was you know they should have known that this is going to be a big
1:22.0	sort of world event.
1:24.4	Some of the early information came out on a LinkedIn post from one of the senior ministers,
1:31.0	and he said that this was primarily about child sex abuse material but you know
1:37.5	sort of left vague what else there was and what the actual accusations were.
1:55.5	Now, Durov stands accused of a broad range of crimes and for failing to stop illegal activity on telegram, an app that has more than 900 million users around the world. But this arrest, shocking as it is, is
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