Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been arrested in France on charges of enabling illegal transactions, failure to provide documents to authorities, complicity in possessing child sexual abuse material and in distributing CSAM, complicity in the distribution of drugs, complicity in organized fraud and money laundering.
This has naturally created controversy, with many calling it politically motivated, an attack on free speech, and oddly enough, an attack on encrypted messaging. I'm not going to wade into anything about political hit jobs or free speech, but I do have to mention one thing—the encryption argument isn't really valid because Telegram isn't always encrypted.
