On September 23, 2024, Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, announced that the messaging app will now provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to political authorities in response to legal requests from certain Western governments.
This marks a significant shift for Telegram, which has traditionally resisted government requests for user data and content moderation.
Durov stated that the platform’s terms of service were updated to prevent criminals from abusing the app.
This announcement follows Durov’s arrest by French authorities less than a month earlier, where he faces charges of complicity in disseminating materials related to child abuse on Telegram.
Durov has denied these allegations, and his legal battle is ongoing in France, where he has been ordered to remain during the proceedings.
Telegram’s new policy represents a notable change in the company’s approach, given its history of non-compliance with government requests for data or content removal.
Based in the United Arab Emirates, Telegram has gained a reputation for resisting such demands, ignoring requests from various governments worldwide to provide information on users suspected of criminal activities.
The platform, which now employs artificial intelligence and moderators to block inappropriate content, has become a key tool for protesters, alternative media outlets, conspiracy theorists, and groups marginalized by mainstream media.
Telegram has been widely used to organize protests, spread dissent, and serve as a hub for voices critical of government policies, including mass migration, military interventions, and political correctness.
In recent years, Telegram has been targeted by multiple governments.
The European Union, Iran, Russia, and other nations have pressured the app due to its role in facilitating dissent and opposition movements.
In 2018, the Russian government attempted to ban Telegram, but abandoned the effort in 2020 after failing to shut it down. After lifting the ban, Russia announced that Telegram would assist in combating extremism and terrorism.
Durov’s arrest and the new policy changes at Telegram have raised suspicions about the motives behind these developments.
Critics argue that the charges against Durov, particularly in France, are politically motivated, as his platform has allowed for the dissemination of ideas that challenge mainstream narratives.
Telegram has become a space for right-wing groups, pro-Palestinian activists, and others critical of Western institutions, making it a thorn in the side of national security interests in NATO and the United States.
Some believe that France, as a NATO member and ally of the U.S., may be acting on behalf of broader Western interests to silence dissent on platforms like Telegram.
They argue that Durov’s arrest is less about criminal charges and more about neutralizing a platform that poses a threat to the political establishment.
George Orwell’s “1984” has arrived. He was a visionary creative writer who got much of “his future forecast” about where mankind was heading back then nearing a hundred years ago! Digital AI and people buying into all the “convenience of paying online” or “not having to walk to the post box” and mail a simple bill so they can sit on their fat asses instead and eat some more cake is turning humanity into a captive audience for “the most diabolical elitist power mongers;” Hitler was “baby cakes” stuff in comparison ( look what they already did with the Plan-Demic globally testing the waters ) to have ever existed and many of them are tapped straight into hell! So where else can all of this stupidity end but in people becoming “Enslaved to Big Brother” or in other words the “Antichrist and Satan.” Looks like we’re in too deep already and along for the ride as I write on a “digital platform that goes into the data cloud!” What a “F*Ckd World” I live in; I wish I had been born hundreds of years ago instead!
MY POINT; this only proves that we human beings are nothing and stupid screwed imbeciles, without God Almighty as our Father and Jesus Christ as our ONLY hope and “Savior.” Amen.
Amen & Amen, The Truth will set us free…..prayer is the answer
Amen & Amen, The Truth will set us free…..prayer is the answer
Pjhoover; Amen & Amen, thank you and God bless you.
As bad as it is and is going to get God Almighty has it all covered, so all of our trust should be in our Savior Jesus Christ who died for us; if we repent and receive his body and blood as the one absolute atonement for our fallen sinful nature and transgressions we are saved and receive eternal life in paradise. Amen.
Jeremiah 17:8-10 “He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit. 9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.”
God bless you.