{"id":15693,"date":"2024-08-28T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/stakes-high-for-european-union-after-arrest-of-telegram-co-founder\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:37:27","slug":"stakes-high-for-european-union-after-arrest-of-telegram-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/stakes-high-for-european-union-after-arrest-of-telegram-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakes high for European Union after arrest of Telegram co-founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charges against Pavel Durov increases pressure on Brussels to enforce new European law on the platform<\/p>\n<p>The surprise arrest of the Russian-born co-founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, after he stepped off his private jet in Paris last Saturday night, has brought the one-time fringe social network under the glare of the spotlight like never before.<\/p>\n<p>Durov\u2019s arrest \u2013 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/aug\/26\/telegram-founder-suspected-allowing-criminal-activity-pavel-durov-prosecutors\">an investigation by the Paris prosecutor<\/a> into organised crime, child sex abuse images, fraud and money laundering on the platform \u2013 also raises the stakes for the European Union, which has adopted the world\u2019s most ambitious laws to police the internet, notably the Digital Services Act (DSA). Coming into force in November 2022, the DSA targets online platforms \u201ctoo big to care\u201d \u2013 in the words of the EU commissioner, Thierry Breton \u2013 putting demands on internet firms to remove illegal content, protect children, tackle disinformation and other online harms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/european-union-arrest-telegram-pavel-durov-law-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a5233a95a5e41090bea6fb9dd40a88375fc3e55\/0_283_5136_3082\/master\/5136.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21932ed27df3f3336587647a9f0a09aa\" title=\"Stakes high for European Union after arrest of Telegram co-founder\" \/>The charges against Pavel Durov increases pressure on Brussels to enforce new European law on the platform<br \/>\nThe surprise arrest of the Russian-born co-founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, after he stepped off his private jet in Paris last Saturday night, has brought the one-time fringe social network under the glare of the spotlight like never before.<br \/>\nDurov\u2019s arrest \u2013 after an investigation by the Paris prosecutor into organised crime, child sex abuse images, fraud and money laundering on the platform \u2013 also raises the stakes for the European Union, which has adopted the world\u2019s most ambitious laws to police the internet, notably the Digital Services Act (DSA). Coming into force in November 2022, the DSA targets online platforms \u201ctoo big to care\u201d \u2013 in the words of the EU commissioner, Thierry Breton \u2013 putting demands on internet firms to remove illegal content, protect children, tackle disinformation and other online harms. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charges against Pavel Durov increases pressure on Brussels to enforce new European law on the platform The surprise arrest of the Russian-born co-founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, after he stepped off his private jet in Paris last Saturday night, has brought the one-time fringe social network under the glare of the spotlight like never &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/stakes-high-for-european-union-after-arrest-of-telegram-co-founder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stakes high for European Union after arrest of Telegram co-founder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}