A year after arrest, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov calls French charges ‘absurd’, says ‘he’d rather die than…’

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has criticized the French authorities for his arrest last year on accusations that the company’s insufficient content moderation led to serious criminal activity. A year later, Durov has called the charges leveled by French authorities “legally and logically absurd.”

“One year ago, the French police detained me for 4 days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented — it was legally and logically…