How the Reichsbrücker Bewegung Propagated in a Cold World. Will Musk Be Arrested Next? A Message from Sellner

Sellner was barred from entering Germany in March due to his keynote speaker position at the November Potsdam conference. There, he presented a plan to members of Germany’s surging far-right party on conducting mass deportations once it came into power. The far right won an election in eastern Germany for the first time since World War II.

Similar messages began proliferating across the app. The Austrian extremist Martin Sellner wrote that the liberal west is shutting off the democracy simulation. Communication channels are likely to collapse soon. Will Musk be arrested next?” The view counts on the message were provided by a Telegram analytic tool, TGStat, which showed it was viewed over 40,000 times.

The Reichsbrger movement is associated with the belief that Germany is still occupied by the Allied powers. German police discovered a large amount of gold and cash and hundreds of guns and knives, as well as dozens of helmets, in their investigation into a coup plot.

I’m sorry to hear about Durov’s book “Crimes on the Telegram app” – a warning warning to those who follow the path of least resistance,” says Hadley

Telegram users may have reason to fear after French authorities threw the book at Durov, charging him with complicity in crimes that take place on the app, including the sharing of child pornography and the trading of narcotics. Criminals can perpetrate their crimes if Durov is held accountable for crimes on the app.

“If you’re a terrorist or you’re an extremist, you’re going to follow the path of least resistance, and in this particular case, that probably means Telegram,” Adam Hadley, the founder and executive director of the United Nations–backed organization Tech Against Terrorism, tells WIRED.

Around 3,000 channels are watched by researchers at Germany’s Center for Monitoring, Analysis, and Strategy. Users are known to post racist and antisemitic hate speech, and some groups contain Nazi symbols, Holocaust denial, and calls to violence, openly flouting Germany’s strict criminal code. A mass exodus from the platform would not be a good thing since groups have spent the last five years creating a global infrastructure for radicalization.

Kim Dotcom, who is set to be extradited from New Zealand, sent a message saying that anyone that knows anything about the penalties for illegal activity on the internet should look it up.

I hope the events of August will make Telegram and social networking as a whole safer and stronger. Thanks for your love and sharing with us.

Telegram’s growth since it’s founding has been huge. It now boasts 950 million global users. Durov blamed “growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform.”

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. We are prepared to leave that country. We’ve done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We don’t do this for money and are prepared to leave markets that are not compatible with our principles. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

The practice is to start a legal action against an internet service if there is unhappiness with it. It’s foolish to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on his platform because it’s laws from the pre-smartphone era. “

The Telegram hotline: a response to a call from a young citizen in France, after an indictment of Laure Beccuau

1. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. I helped the French government establish a hotline with Telegram, to find out more about the threat of terrorism in France.

2. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement last week outlining the wide-ranging charges that Telegram exhibited an “almost total failure to respond to judicial requests.”

The 39-year old citizen of France and the United Arab Emirates was indicted on Aug. 28 in Paris on multiple charges including spreading child abuse images, drug trafficking and failure to comply with law enforcement. He was placed under court monitoring after being ordered to post bail. He is also not permitted to leave the country.

Telegram is not flawless, but the company took down millions of posts and is working on improving the platform in order to make it safer and stronger.