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 This needs more reporting but so far, this is wild. Terrible precedent.

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 Agreed. 

This will not end well.  
 what is happening to Europe? 
 Europe is cucked beyond rescue 
 rough times. they will frame it in the worst possible light, but basically they are choking every neck available. I would like that someone could convince Elon to turn twitter into a DAO and try to change it to a decentralized architecture. if that is even possible 
 So sad It truly is a battle for free speech Elon Musk should be aware! This will not end, this means they try to hold them responsible for someone else’s words or actions. 
 
 They’ve been very transparent with their motivations over there in the EU for quite a while now. I’d say this is less wild and more to be expected. The wild thing is how far Europe has fallen into its past from the promises made towards a free and fair society post ww2. 
 Durov was arrested as he got off his private jet on the tarmac at Le Bourget airport in Paris. BFMTV reports that the Telegram founder was put on a wanted list JUST MINUTES before landing in Paris, and an arrest warrant was issued. 

Durov "will be presented to an investigating judge on Saturday evening before a possible indictment on Sunday for a multitude of offenses: terrorism, narcotics, fraud, money laundering, receiving stolen goods, pedo criminal content," TF1 reports. 
 Wasn't there some Bitcoin mixer dev who got convicted?

I'm searching for it but the only one I'm finding is Fog and he seemed to actually run the service, not just contribute code 
 Protocols not Platforms may soon become a thing 
 where is the legal defense fund at? 
 how easy could be, in a time, that the same garbage could ban or prosecute shops that accept btc? 
 Pavel prob staged this  
 Does this mean people will start avoiding travelling to selective nation states if you run a free speech application? 
 With Telegram now being targeted aggressively by Western governments, the West takes another step towards migration to Nostr. I suspect that 2 or 3 years from now, as the fascism intensifies, Nostr will become mainstream.