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Transnational Thursday for August 22, 2024

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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Pavel Durov (who has French citizenship from late 2021) is arrested in France and will have to face court. Some say that the plane wasn't heading to France but was redirected.

The mistake he made was that Telegram group chats aren’t (iirc) fully encrypted and so he can presumably be argued to have some kind of legal moderation duty.