{"id":966206,"date":"2025-10-06T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966206"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:12:03","slug":"telegram-ceo-durov-on-2024-arrest-no-other-tech-leader-targeted-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/06\/telegram-ceo-durov-on-2024-arrest-no-other-tech-leader-targeted-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO Durov on 2024 arrest: &#8216;no other tech leader targeted like this&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov said his arrest by French authorities in August 2024 was an unprecedented overreach of power, unlike anything seen against any other tech leader. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I arrived in France last year in August for a short two-day trip, and I see a dozen armed policemen asking me to follow them. They read me a list of something like 15 serious crimes that I was accused of, which was mind-boggling. At first, I thought there must be some mistake. Then I realised they\u2019re being serious and they\u2019re accusing me of all possible crimes that the users of Telegram have allegedly committed, and they think I should be responsible\u2019\u2019, he said, speaking on the Lex Fridman Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov said his arrest by French authorities in August 2024 was an unprecedented overreach of power, unlike anything seen against any other tech leader. &#8220;I arrived in France last year in August for a short two-day trip, and I see a dozen armed policemen asking me to follow them. They read me a list of something like 15 serious crimes that I was accused of, which was mind-boggling. At first, I thought there must be some mistake. Then I realised they\u2019re being serious and they\u2019re accusing me of all possible crimes that the users of Telegram have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}