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Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested in France. “Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported,” BBC noted. BREAKING: Founder & CEO of Telegram – Pavel Durov, a Russian national, arrested in France at the airport as he arrived from Azerbaijan. pic.twitter.com/2by2eSrqpV — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) August 24, 2024 BBC reports: According to officials the 39-year-old billionaire was arrested under a warrant for offences related to the popular messaging app. The investigation is reportedly about a lack of moderators, with Mr Durov accused of failing to take steps to curb criminal uses of Telegram. The app is accused of failure to cooperate with law enforcement over drug trafficking, child sexual content and fraud. Telegram has previously denied having insufficient moderation. Mr Durov was born in Russia and lives in Dubai. He holds dual citizenship of the United Arab Emirates and France. Telegram is particularly popular in Russia, Ukraine and former Soviet Union states. The app was banned in Russia in 2018, after a previous refusal by Mr Durov to hand over user data. But the ban was reversed in 2021. “Mr Durov actually did an interview with the American right-wing commentator back in April, a man called Tucker Carlson,” Sky News noted. WATCH: NEW – Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Has Been Arrested at an Airport in Paris "The arrest and potential investigation relates to this app for its potential lack of moderation and potential criminal activity…Mr Durov actually did an interview with the American right-wing… pic.twitter.com/DG6JZ9ZKdg — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 25, 2024 “I’m a little late to this, but for good reason — I’ve just safely departed from Europe. France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech,” Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski said. “Rumble will not stand for this behavior and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right. We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov’s immediate release,” he added. I’m a little late to this, but for good reason — I’ve just safely departed from Europe. France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech. Rumble will not stand for this behavior and… — Chris Pavlovski (@chrispavlovski) August 25, 2024 “Free speech is under major assault and I will not stop fighting for it,” Pavlovski said. “Very worrying,” Elon Musk commented. Very worrying — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 25, 2024 Musk shared a clip of Durov’s interview with Tucker Carlson. WATCH: #FreePavel pic.twitter.com/B7AcJWswMs — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 25, 2024 From Al Jazeera: Durov faces possible indictment on Sunday, according to French media. TF1 TV and BFM TV, both quoting unidentified sources, said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app. One of the investigators told AFP they were surprised Durov entered France despite the warrant against him, adding “enough of Telegram’s impunity”. Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in France has demanded consular access to Durov and demanded that his rights be ensured, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Sunday. The embassy said France has so far “avoided engagement” on the situation with Durov. Russian diplomats are in contact with Durov’s lawyer, the embassy said.

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When destroying his country’s culture, Mao repeatedly referenced the politics of joy. His words resemble the hope and joy messaging Kamala Harris and Tim Walz continually emphasize: “To struggle against the heavens is endless joy, to struggle against the earth is endless joy, to struggle against people is endless joy,” Mao wrote. We’ve gone from hope […] The post Kamala Harris’s Authoritarian Hope and Joy appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Spencer Klavan, associate editor at the Claremont Institute and host of the “Young Heretics” podcast, discussed his new book exploring the relationship between science and faith and rejected the popular notion that the two are incompatible on the latest episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special.”  During the interview, Shapiro asked Klavan about his new work “Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science through Faith.” Klavan told Shapiro that “religion has always motivated the best scientific discoveries and how science as it is currently unveiling, the natural world can reveal to us the glory of God.” Shapiro and Klavan are also featured in “Foundations of the West,” the new DailyWire+ docu-series from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, exploring the profound legacies of Western civilizations and their lasting impact on the modern world.  “Obviously, the way that many people are taught in public school or have come to believe because of media is that science and reason are completely opposed to faith and religion,” Shapiro said.  WATCH THE FULL ‘SUNDAY SPECIAL’ EPISODE WITH BEN SHAPIRO AND SPENCER KLAVAN Klavan said that the idea of science and religion being at odds is “not just pernicious” but also “wildly out of date.” He pointed to recent scientific discoveries that go hand-in-hand with “the world as described in the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures.” Klavan argued this narrative creates an unnecessary barrier for people of faith, making them feel that they must “abandon the most important thing to all of us, which is the life of the soul and the life of the spirit” in order to be rational. Klavan emphasized that science itself requires faith principles to function. The Daily Wire host agreed, saying, “The reality is that science can’t prove itself. And this is something that scientists are constantly attempting to just sort of ignore. But science as a process is not a provably true process. And in fact, the very idea of an absolute truth is a faith principle because evolution, biologists have said many times, does not point to truth.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “It points to adaptability. And so you can say that perhaps an idea is adaptable, that perhaps it helps us in our evolutionary fitness,” he added. “But you can’t ever make the claim that it has an absolute level of real truth. That is a faith principle. And in fact, virtually all of science is rooted in faith principles like that.” Klavan cited historical examples like Galileo, who defended his observations by saying, “I don’t want to insult God by believing that my reason has a hard stopping point.” “In other words, if it’s true that human reason only extends so far and no further, that’s an insult to religion,” he continued. “The religious point of view at that time, or one at least of the most passionately faithful points of view, was that because we’re made in the image of God, that classic Judeo-Christian idea, our minds are little microcosms or templates for understanding the whole rest of the natural world. If you take away that religious conviction, you have no reason to believe that or to expect good answers to the questions that science teaches us to ask.”

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