> What it means is that European states are going to try to extraterritorially dictate to foreign companies what content those companies can and cannot host on foreign-based webservers
It looks like the author failed to grab that Durov asked for the French nationality and therefore is a French citizen who must comply to French law.
> Telegram is not the only company in the world which has a social media platform used for unlawful purposes
Except Telegram is the only one of those companies which intentionally doesn’t answers to legal requests. All other social networks are cooperating with law enforcers in the countries they operate.
Even Signal is cooperating when asked too. The difference is that unlike Signal, Telegram owns its users data in plaintext.
Also the author fails to understand that the complicity here doesn’t mean that companies in Europe are responsible for their users content. Like in the US, they are responsible if they fail to comply to laws in a reasonable time. Telegram doesn’t comply in a reasonable time since they voluntarily don’t comply at all. That’s a huge difference.
It looks like the author failed to grab that Durov asked for the French nationality and therefore is a French citizen who must comply to French law.
> Telegram is not the only company in the world which has a social media platform used for unlawful purposes
Except Telegram is the only one of those companies which intentionally doesn’t answers to legal requests. All other social networks are cooperating with law enforcers in the countries they operate.
Even Signal is cooperating when asked too. The difference is that unlike Signal, Telegram owns its users data in plaintext.
Also the author fails to understand that the complicity here doesn’t mean that companies in Europe are responsible for their users content. Like in the US, they are responsible if they fail to comply to laws in a reasonable time. Telegram doesn’t comply in a reasonable time since they voluntarily don’t comply at all. That’s a huge difference.