The EU has proven itself time and time again to be so openly anti-innovation that it’s difficult to even take legislation like the Digital Services Act seriously. None of my products operate in the EU and for good reason. I have no interest in playing the legal games required to support them.<p>I wish I more fully understood the cultural differences that make this anti-innovation stance so prevalent in the EU.
At some point, the adults in the room (and specifically, a few brave and seasoned elder statesmen/women) need to stand up and state the obvious:<p>On sufficiently long time scales, the internet will not tolerate states, and states will not be able to withstand the influence of the internet.<p>The ability to copy and send bytes around the world, to capture and disseminate media in such a way that forces transparency, but also to facilitate and democratize private conversation, to route around censorship... these are qualities that make what are today fundamental aspects of statecraft, such as state secrets, intellectual property, control over money supply and trade, surveillance, and censorship, impossible.<p>It's time to acknowledge that we need to transition our methods for ensuring each other's safety, well-being, freedom, justice, and prosperity via stateless channels and stop regarding states as having any jurisdiction over the internet.
"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."<p>What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform.<p>There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender.<p>Here's just one of the studies: <a href="https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distribution-illicit-sexual-content-minors-online" rel="nofollow">https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distributi...</a>
The more the French authorities delay in releasing official information about Durov's arrest, the worse it looks for them.<p>I mean the West has always accused the East of employing similar tactics wrt arresting journalists/freedom fighters etc, how do we not see the irony here...
> It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform<p>As the law places certain responsibilities onto platforms, if you (any platform not just Telegram) say this kind of thing, are you sure you're following the law right, or are you just saying the law is wrong and bad?
There is a war going on in Europe right now. Real war with tanks, bombs and rockets, often hitting hospitals in Kyiv for some weird reason. This arrest put russians in a panic mode. Did you know russian army is actually using Telegram for coordinating strikes, and Discord for FPVs? <a href="https://youchu.be/watch?v=mwtbTuLZXWw" rel="nofollow">https://youchu.be/watch?v=mwtbTuLZXWw</a><p>You know something is up when russians, and Snowden (or his handler), are calling the arrest of French citizen in France "taking hostages".