{"id":1816,"date":"2024-08-26T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:33:43","slug":"snowdon-spoke-out-about-the-french-arrest-of-the-founder-of-the-social-networking-software-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Snowdon spoke out about the French arrest of the founder of the social networking software telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Russia Today (RT) , pavier Durov, founder and chief executive of the social networking software Telegram, was arrested at a French airport on social media platform X on Tuesday, the Edward Snowden of the former US defence contractor and star of Prism Gate said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1817\" title=\"bfcd0e68345c6225bda1546f60261af2u1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bfcd0e68345c6225bda1546f60261af2u1.png\" alt=\"bfcd0e68345c6225bda1546f60261af2u1\" width=\"731\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bfcd0e68345c6225bda1546f60261af2u1.png 731w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bfcd0e68345c6225bda1546f60261af2u1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><br \/>\nFile Photo: Snowdon speaks online at an online forum in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2019<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Durov is a violation of the basic human rights of speech and association, Snowden said in a statement on Sunday. He also took aim at Maqueron, accusing him of \u201cHostage-taking\u201d and of being \u201cSurprised and saddened\u201d. \u201cIt demeans not only the French, but the whole world,\u201d Snowdon added.<\/p>\n<p>Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, a social networking app that claims to \u201cNever reveal any user information,\u201d was arrested at a French airport on the night of August 24, the Global Times reported earlier, start a debate. Headquartered in Dubai, the UAE, with about 950m active users, it is one of the world&#8217;s most popular communications software but has been criticised by law enforcement in several countries for its alleged \u201cPrivacy\u201d. French police have accused the telegraph software of becoming a\u201cHub for criminal content\u201d. Le Monde commented that the arrest of the head of a popular social networking platform was \u201cThe first of its kind in the world\u201d and that while many countries had threatened to ban the cables, there had been no similar action against executives such as Durov.<\/p>\n<p>Russian foreign ministry spokesman Zacharov\u00e1 25 through the \u201cTelegraph\u201d platform, said that Russia has requested consular visits to Durov, but because Durov also has French nationality, \u201cFrance considers France his primary nationality,\u201d he said, refusing to cooperate with Russia. She also poked fun at Western non-governmental organization who accused Russia of blocking \u201cCables\u201d in 2018, asking whether they would \u201cAsk the French to release Durov or not say anything\u201d this time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Russia Today (RT) , pavier Durov, founder and chief executive of the social networking software Telegram, was arrested at a French airport on social media platform X on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,249],"tags":[387,482,481],"views":105,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}