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As I predicted, he's out on bail, cannot leave France, and must report to a police station every 2 days. Hardly an oubliette in the Bastille, which people seem to have been convinced would be his fate,

Writing "fact" after a statement doesn't magically make it one, bub

Speech-suppressing US media prevents me from reading this...

I knew this was good stuff when the majority of HN commenters where huffily complaining about the tone.

This is frikken hilarious.

I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:

date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"

Note, this is locale-dependent.

Wild-ass theory: Putin convinced Durov to travel to France to get himself arrested to rile up millions of Telegram users and make France look foolish/despotic.

Everything is terrible

Conservatives in particular have, for culture war reasons, recently recommended Telegram—an “encrypted messaging” app that has many parts that are not encrypted and which does not have a clear governance structure—over Signal, an app that is open source and by all accounts uses one of the strongest encryption protocols ever created, on every chat that happens on the platform. Because conservatives have promoted Telegram recently, some of them now see Durov’s arrest as a particular crackdown on America’s right wing, free speech, and, possibly, a political incursion against the Russian government and military, both of which use Telegram.

https://www.404media.co/how-telegrams-founder-pavel-durov-became-a-culture-war-martyr/

@dgerard@awful.systems pin pls 📌

I don't wanna be a wet blanket but one thing that struck me back in the Last.fm days was how little music taste correlated with how I got along with people (online and off). That said I'll give these a fair shake but I'm an old man set in my ways when it comes to music.

FWIW I usually find what JWZ recommends/promotes to be ok.

I think the prosecution will have a hard time, but I don't know anything about French internet law. But if it's a weird-ass protection deal to keep Durov out of Russia's hands, it might just be smoke and mirrors anyway.

I'm pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.

Plenty of people are showering unearned privacy brownie points on Telegram already. There's a bizarre Telegram/Signal beef online since forever.