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Chris Pavlovski’s oprn video hosting platform Rumble has been embroiled in a long-running legal battle with the French authorities

France has crossed all boundaries by arresting Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of video-sharing platform Rumble, has said, adding that he left Europe after the news broke.

Durov was taken into custody at a Paris airport on Saturday evening after arriving from Azerbaijan by private jet. While the French authorities have yet to publicly announce the reason for detaining the Russian tech mogul, reports indicate that the charges are related to his alleged complicity in drug trafficking, pedophilia offenses, fraud, as well as failure to address criminal activity on the messenger.

Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski.

Telegram has denied any wrongdoing, adding that it is “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Pavlovski said he had “safely departed from Europe” in the aftermath of Durov’s arrest. He slammed the move by France, saying it “crossed a red line,” while noting that the country had already threatened Rumble.

”Rumble will not stand for this behavior and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right. We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov’s immediate release,” he added.

Pavlovski’s platform, which has positioned itself as a free speech alternative to YouTube, has been embroiled in its own legal battle with the French authorities. It began in November 2022 after officials in Paris banned Rumble over its refusal to comply with a request to remove Russian media accounts blocked in the EU due to sanctions over the Ukraine conflict.

Though Durov’s arrest occurred in France, a number of opinion leaders, including American entrepreneur David Sacks, have suggested that the US was behind the move.

In April, Sacks also predicted that Washington could go after Telegram, X, and eventually Rumble, given that the US passed a law that would ban the video-sharing platform TikTok if its Chinese-based developer, ByteDance, refused to sell it within 12 months.

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Durov’s arrest ‘in spirit of EU’s Digital Services Act’ – TASS source

The regulation says that tech companies are responsible for policing content on their platform –

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Durov arrest condemns 950 million users

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France is in line with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which stipulates that service providers are responsible for the content shared on their platforms, TASS reported on Sunday, citing a source in the bloc’s legal system.

The Russian tech entrepreneur – who is also a citizen of France, the UAE, and St. Kitts and Nevis – was detained upon landing in Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday. He is reportedly being accused of failing to curb criminal activities on his platform.   

Durov’s arrest is “fully in line with the spirit and the principles” of DSA, the TASS source said. “If the operator wants to avoid penalties, it must automatically take down the content banned by the European regulator.

The DSA “does not contain personal or criminal liability,”the source added,“which means that the prosecution in France went much further.” Durov’s legal team would face “additional difficulties,” since the allegations against him could be tied to the issue of French national security and that it would be harder to arrange a public campaign given his Russian citizenship.

Durov left Russia in the mid-2010s over a disagreement with the government and has since mostly lived in the UAE. In 2021, he acquired French and Emirati citizenship.

He insisted that it is his “principled position” to keep user data private and that he “would rather be free than take orders from anyone.” In an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson in April, Durov said he faced pressure from the US government to install a surveillance “backdoor,” which he refused to do.

Telegram issued a statement on Sunday, saying its content-moderation policies were “within industry standards.”

Multiple public figures in Russia and abroad have condemned Durov’s arrest, describing it as an attack on freedom of speech and the free flow of information. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the consulate in Paris has demanded access to Durov.an share this story on social media:

from thefreeonline ON Aug 26, 2024 by Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD | substack.com/@anamihalceamdphd .

Reiner Fuellmich is a German attorney who has licenses to practice law in both Germany and the United States. He has been a champion of the people in Germany where he took on corporate giants such as Deutsche Bank for mortgage fraud and Volkswagen for emissions scandal and bested them in court trials. Today, he still languishes in prison on what appears to be fabricated charges. 

Reiner set up a Corona Investigative Committee where he interviewed over 150 professionals including doctors and experts on the Covid-19 pandemic. He was preparing for a Nuremberg II hearing on Crimes Against Humanity similar to hearings held after WW II to hold Nazi criminals accountable. 

Problem, the global fascists are presently in control and did not like that possibility of being investigated, indicted and arrested. The Truth is their enemy.

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Reiner had a property in California were he had moved and was licensed to practice law there.  He and his wife were on a speaking engagement in England and upon returning via Mexico, he was not allowed by the Biden administration to re-enter the United States, as he was considered anathema and a threat to the established Covid-19 narrative. 

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We have a hundred years of experience, so you don’t have to learn the hard way.

from thefreeonline on August 22nd 2024 by WessexSolidarity … … … ( thefree on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)

Fascism has been with us for just over a century now. We may never defeat fascism, but we have shown we can defeat fascists. On this island, every generation has had to confront the right, as it has dipped in and out of electoral politics and eventually been seen off the streets, not by police or government, but by the Working Class.

We have a hundred years of experience, so you don’t have to learn the hard way. Much has been written about what works and what doesn’t, how tactics on both sides are distorted by ideology, and the role of the state.

The following leaflet is a good starting point for a community under attack: Download as pdf, 2x A5 double sided For a simplex printer, flip end-to-end and reload to print the other side.

Community defence against right-wing racist aggression.

The enemy: Far-right fascist agitators who exist just to create division and conflict. They may claim to share the ‘concerns’ of one or another group but they only want power for themselves. They are few in number but they never go away, waiting to opportunistically exploit spectacular news events. They jumped on the apparent confusion surrounding the Southport attack.

In their wake are many disaffected youth. This society offers them nothing they want and most will never get what they need. Extremists regard such people as expendable ‘cannon-fodder’.

Migration is not an issue: It’s simply a natural consequence of factors beyond our control, such as climate change and the Western powers smashing the infrastructure of five countries. As more of the earth’s surface becomes uninhabitable, people will move, it’s what they do.

Borders only serve bosses, not workers; they exist to create differentials in prices and wages, which boost the mark-up on manufacturing.

There is no shortage of anything here. There are a million empty dwellings on this island and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of food every year. Corporations are cash-rich but will not invest in anything unless it gives them a greater return than simply holding currency.

It’s in governments’ interests to have you believe otherwise; the economy relies on artificial scarcity, to keep you working longer and harder for less reward. The UK establishment has spent decades enforcing this ‘austerity’ while stoking fear of other cultures, especially Islamic ones, despite these having been embedded in the West for generations. Police, politicians and the media all have their own agendas. We could argue about what these are, or why, but that won’t help us here.

Who are the “white working class”? There never was such a thing. You are Working Class if you have nothing to sell but your time. If you identify as white, it will be because no-one has ever asked you where you come from, or invited you to go back there – nothing to boast about.

There is no white working class because there is no ‘white race’. That was invented in the mid Seventeenth Century to justify the wars of Empire and stave off the movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, that’s nothing to be proud of either.

There are experienced antifascists operating in your area. We have not the resources to protect everybody but we can offer tips and advice: e-mail defcom24@riseup.net.

What can you do? We recommend establishing autonomous neighbourhood defence committees. Start forming small affinity groups, by gathering a few trusted friends, relatives and neighbours, who live nearby, can work together, and who care about each other personally – this is vital.

Now federate these into a neighbourhood committee that can take care of a street, block or postcode. Encourage others to do the same. Are you a member of a residents or tenants association, trade union, sports club or religious congregation? In time, aim to federate neighbourhood committees into district or regional ones. Shelve your politics and prejudices; we have a common aim and no time to squabble amongst ourselves.

Physical superiority is central to fascist culture, so they are only ever satisfactorily defeated by physical resistance, this has happened many times since the 1920’s.

There are many reasons why a person may wish to avoid physical confrontation: health, ability, temperament, employment or citizenship status; but not everybody needs to be on the ‘front line’. Some folk should rest at home ready to provide late-night police station support in case of arrests. For large mobilisations we also need spotters, first-aiders, legal observers and a communications hub to relay information, this might be in another town.

We can all be involved in intelligence gathering, in advance of any threat. Mapping the territory and surrounding area thoroughly is the first step; how will the enemy arrive? Where will they assemble? Locate vulnerable people and reassure them they will not be abandoned to their fate – then don’t let them down! If you’re holding a public meeting or event, make sure it is adequately stewarded and have look-outs.

Police and courts are not supposed to take sides. Your own experience may or may not support this. You might call on them in an emergency but remember the criminal justice system exists to get people convicted and doing unpaid work in prison. They are paid by results, so information you give them will be used to this end.

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