{"id":1100,"date":"2024-09-06T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2024-09-09T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T03:03:01","slug":"telegram-ceo-defends-himself-in-first-public-comments-since-being-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/telegram-ceo-defends-himself-in-first-public-comments-since-being-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO defends himself in first public comments since being charged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov defended himself Thursday in his first public comments since being charged in France last week<\/a> for \u201ccomplicity\u201d with criminal activity taking place on the popular messaging app.<\/p>\n

Durov argued in a post on Telegram that the \u201cestablished practice\u201d when a country is unhappy with an internet service is to bring legal action against the company, not the CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding technology is hard enough as it is,\u201d he continued. \u201cNo innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Telegram founder and CEO, who is accused of failing to respond to law enforcement\u2019s requests for information, also suggested that French authorities had numerous ways to reach him and that his company was reachable via its European Union (EU) representative.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance [between privacy and security],\u201d Durov added. \u201cYes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we\u2019ve always been open to dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he also acknowledged that Telegram is not perfect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear voices saying that it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Durov said. \u201cTelegram\u2019s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That\u2019s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durov was detained at Paris-Le Bourget Airport<\/a> late last month and questioned for several days by French authorities. He was formally indicted by a French judge last week and released from custody after posting \u20ac5 million, or about $5.5 million, for bail.<\/p>\n

He is accused of \u201ccomplicity\u201d in administering an online platform that enables the distribution of child sex abuse material, illicit transactions, money laundering, organized fraud and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov defended himself Thursday in his first public comments since being charged in France last week for \u201ccomplicity\u201d with criminal activity taking place on the popular messaging app. Durov argued in a post on Telegram that the \u201cestablished practice\u201d when a country is unhappy with an internet service is to bring legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}