Post #3406

9+ months after I learned about the investigation against me in France, I still don’t understand why it began. At first, the authorities claimed Telegram didn’t respond to French requests — but it turned out they’d been ignoring the EU and French law, and hadn’t sent us a single legally binding judicial request until last September. Then they argued that Telegram moderated content worse than other platforms — a claim that was soon refuted by several hundred pages of forensic evidence proving the opposite. Why I’m still unable to leave France — a country where less than 1% of Telegram’s billion users reside — remains a mystery. - Durov