Within the larger Western Intelligence Community and government control system overall, there is always internal communication and coordination amid the primary players (the G7 and G20 crowd). No government does anything against a major communication player or Big Tech voice without the other governmental leaders having fore knowledge.
The U.S State Dept and Biden administration knew the French government were going to arrest Pavel Durov. The context and the issues behind the justification are ridiculous. Is Tim Cook now responsible for criminals who organize bank robberies on Apple iPhones?
(Via Fox News) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday claimed that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest outside Paris over the weekend was “in no way a political decision.” The development came after a French magistrate on Sunday extended the 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire’s detention, French daily newspaper Le Monde reported.
[…] The Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement Monday that the suspected violations include complicity in selling child pornography and in drug trafficking, fraud, abetting organized crime transactions and refusing to share information or documents with investigators when required by law, The Associated Press reported.
Jean-Michel Bernigaud, secretary general of Ofmin, a French police agency tasked with preventing violence against minors, said Durov’s arrest was related to the platform allegedly not properly moderating content related to child sex crimes. (read more)
The tech world, Big Tech leaders, internet researchers and every normal person of stable constitution, knows that nothing about those justifications is accurate to the motives of the leftist government in France. What the government fears most is unregulated information that is averse to their interests.
“Crimes against children”?… Where was this concern when minors were force vaccinated at the behest of the same government entities now decrying “crimes against children.” This ruse is nonsense.
The good news is that I doubt very seriously these insufferable western dictators can break Pavel Durov. Twitter owner Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski, Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, META’s Mark Zuckerberg and many more within the Big Tech network have called for the released of Pavel Durov on their social media platforms.
The best thing the average citizen of the West can do is immediately cancel any travel plans to France and use economic power to show Macron that the world values free expression and speech. Boycott the insufferable French government, because if this effort is successful the chilling impact will ripple out quickly.
Pavel Durov is a big hero in Russia and throughout the EU for his stance on privacy in tech.
Despite Macron’s silly statement about the non-politics of his government targeting, perhaps Elon Musk and President Trump could personally contact Macron and tell him they are 12 hours away from making public statements that will bring big financial hurt to France.
