❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using 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. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes ?

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韩国监管机构称 Telegram 已遵从其要求删除了违法内容并道歉 韩国媒体监管机构周二表示，加密消息应用程序 Telegram 已遵从其要求，删除其平台上某些深度伪造色情内容，并为其对数字性犯罪的回应道歉。 韩国通信标准委员会 (KCSC) 表示，Telegram 东亚分公司代表已向该委员会发送了一封电子邮件，确认该公司已按照 KCSC 的要求从其平台上删除了 25 项性剥削材料。 Telegram 还为该问题造成的沟通不畅道歉，并提供了一个专属电子邮件地址，以便将来与媒体监督机构进行沟通。韩国网络安全信保委员会表示，已要求…

Telegram 是言论自由和恋童癖的天堂

2024-09-02 16:17 by 海与火的传人

Telegram 不仅仅是一款消息应用，它还是一个社交媒体平台。那么作为社媒平台，它是否要为内容承担部分责任？批评者认为，Telegram CEO Pavel Durov 用理想主义掩盖了机会主义商业模式，允许 Telegram 从包括 CSAM 在内的不合法内容上获利。Telegram 既受到政治异见人士青睐，也对恐怖组织、犯罪组织和性捕食者有巨大吸引力，将其用作分享和消费非自愿色情、AI 深度伪造裸照以及儿童色情材料 CSAM 的枢纽。由于 Telegram 宣称不与执法部门合作，不会扫描 CSAM 材料，因此吸引了大量恋童癖者交易和出售 CSAM。Telegram 只在一对一通信时可选择端对端加密，而它使用的加密算法是内部开发的，没有接受过外部的审查，其余的群聊和通信等都是公开托管在 Telegram 服务器上。法国检方认为，Durov 要为 Telegram 成为包括 CSAM 在内的非法内容的全球避风港负责。

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/31/091245/washington-post-calls-telegram-a-haven-for-free-speech---and-child-predators
https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/heliography-in-darkness

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#Telegram 附近的人功能目前不顯示任何只顯示100m內群組和個人，尚不清楚是否與 #Durov 被捕有關。

? Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act — its moderation is within industry standards and constantly improving.

? Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe.

? It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.

? Almost a billion users globally use Telegram as means of communication and as a source of vital information.

? We’re awaiting a prompt resolution of this situation. Telegram is with you all.

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TON 就 Telegram CEO 被捕发表声明：TON 将继续全面运作
TON 就 Telegram CEO 被捕发表声明，“向所有人保证 TON 社区仍然强大且全面运作。”
作为一个致力于言论自由和权力下放的社区，在这个充满挑战的时刻，我们坚定地支持 Pavel。Pavel 一直是这些价值观的忠实倡导者，我们相信他为促进开放和去中心化的互联网所做的努力将继续激励数百万人。TON 社区仍然专注于我们的使命，我们将继续努力在全球维护这些原则。我们鼓励每个人保持冷静、团结，并在共同应对这一局势时继续建设。感谢您一直以来的支持。

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