❗️Pavel Durov commented for the first time on the detention in France. The founder of Telegram said that after arriving in Paris he was interrogated by the police for four days.
He called the claims of the French authorities surprising, noting that Telegram complies with the laws, the messenger has a representative in the EU who answers requests, and Paris has many ways to contact Durov personally.
– “I was told that I could be personally responsible for the illegal use of Telegram by others because the French authorities did not receive answers from Telegram”;
– “Some time ago, when I was asked, I personally helped create a hotline with Telegram to combat the threat of terrorism in France”;
— As a French citizen, he was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai;
—Using pre-smartphone laws to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on a platform he controls is a flawed approach;
— Creating technologies in itself is quite difficult. No innovator will ever create new tools if he knows that he can be held personally liable for the potential abuse of those tools.
