French-Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov founded Telegram in 2013, following Russia’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. Now one of the largest communication tools in the world, Telegram uses encryption, similar to Signal, to prevent bad actors — whether individuals or corrupt governments — from tracking your communications. Telegram is central to everyday life in places like Russia, Ukraine, and India. In fact, Russia had a problem with the app because Ukrainians were using it for military communications. That’s how secure the encryption is. You would expect societies that claim to champion freedom of speech and privacy to embrace this app, while totalitarian governments that want to control their people's private communication would do everything they could to ban it. Yet it wasn’t Russia, Iran, or China that targeted Durov — it was France. They are coming for Musk, they are coming for Rumble, and they are coming for you. This is not about your digital safety. It is about their quest for power. Authorities arrested Durov at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris earlier this week. The Russian embassy in Paris demanded an explanation from the French government. In response, the French government stated that Durov “was detained by the National Anti-fraud Office over the alleged facilitation of various crimes, including terrorism, narcotics, trafficking, and fraud.” They further accuse him of “allowing an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed” on Telegram “for which he did nothing.” In short, they are charging Durov as an accomplice to the crimes others have committed while using his app. In the United States, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects social media companies from being charged as accomplices to most crimes committed on their platforms. Though French and European law doesn’t fall under Section 230, their double standard for platforms that comply with their censorship campaigns is clear. For example, “60 Minutes” reports that New Mexico's attorney general is accusing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of enabling child sex abuse and trafficking on its sites. According to the attorney general’s undercover investigation, Facebook and Instagram's algorithms created a marketplace for the sexual exploitation of children, and Meta enabled adults to find, message, and groom minors, soliciting them to sell pictures or participate in pornographic videos. Will France hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable for enabling child pornography on his platform? Why was Durov arrested for crimes that Meta has repeatedly been proven to facilitate? Could it be because Durov’s product counters government censorship, while Meta has openly complied with it? Europe has been rapidly metastasizing into a global center for censorship, and the EU's Digital Services Act was the final nail in the coffin of what’s left of free speech on the continent. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley rightly called the Digital Services Act “one of the greatest threats to free speech that we have today around the world,” forcing social media companies to flag and report content that the EU deems harmful. Shielded in dull, bureaucratic language, the Digital Services Act empowers the globalist EU government to censor any speech as it sees fit. It emboldens people like Margrethe Vestager, a Danish politician serving as executive vice president of the European Commission for “A Europe Fit for the Digital Age,” to threaten Elon Musk’s X with fines for refusing to comply with its censorship packaged as EU “guidelines." Durov’s arrest has scared the CEOs of other pro-free speech platforms, and rightly so. Rumble founder and CEO Chris Pavlovski said, “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 will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right,” Pavlovski added. “We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov’s immediate release.” Elon Musk is also concerned. “It is vital to the support of free speech that you forward X posts to people you know, especially in censorship-heavy countries,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter). He's saying that X posts are going to be hidden in countries like France, and the only way you can see them is if a person from a non-censored country directly sends them to you. Is Facebook held to this standard of censorship too? Alexander Vindman, who was a key witness against Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, said this in response to Durov’s arrest: While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter. There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo [and] malign influence [and] a growing appetite for accountability. Musk should be nervous. That’s a threat, coming from a Democratic candidate for Congress no less. Is there really a growing intolerance for platforming “disinformation”? There may be within the elite ruling class but not with the American people. This year at Blaze Media, we are breaking multiple records in our company’s history. We have a bigger impact now than when I was at Fox News. This is especially astonishing given our Facebook numbers. We can’t get any traction on Facebook, but this is not a new battle. It always silences our voice, and your voice, during an election season. And it’s only going to get worse. Durov’s arrest is not an isolated issue. We have felt the rumblings of Europe's seismic shift toward censorship for years, but Durov’s arrest is the first major crack in the ground. The ruling elites want you to fall through the cracks along with him until they and their cronies are the only ones left above ground. They are coming for Musk, they are coming for Rumble, and they are coming for you. This is not about your digital safety. It is about their quest for power. Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has already come under fire for lying about “going to war,” which he did not. Now, he’s once again been caught lying — and his integrity is looking thin to nonexistent. When he launched his campaign for U.S. Congress in 2006, Walz had boasted in his public biography that he was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. “That was nice,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “Except, it’s just not true.” “According to the article,” he continues, “it was a small lie about a minor honor.” The Outstanding Young Nebraskan honor can apparently still be found in an archived version on his campaign website, though it’s still untrue. Even the president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce wrote to Walz to object. He reportedly said, “It has come to my attention that as part of your campaign for U.S. Congress, you’ve posted your biography on your website that claims you received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for your service to the business community. We researched this matter and can confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.” The Chamber had actually endorsed Walz’s opponent, Gil Gutknecht, a Republican incumbent who had held the seat since 1995. Walz’s campaign manager claimed that he’d actually won an award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce and that the mistake was a “typographical error.” Gutknecht ended up losing to Walz in 2006 and spoke to the Washington Free Beacon that year. He told them that “it fits a pattern of misleading and fabricated statements he has made throughout his political and personal life.” “He’s flat-out lying through his communist teeth,” Gray says, noting that Walz also lied about being a beneficiary of in vitro fertilization. “The excuse that the campaign used then was ‘Oh Governor Walz just talks how normal people talk. He was using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments,’” Gray continues, adding, “No, what he’s using there is a lie.” Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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A new type of passive cooling paint can help cool cars by up to 21 degrees Fahrenheit, even in direct sunlight. Nissan engineered the paint to help improve the cooling in parked cars, as getting into a car that has been baking in the sun all day can actually be a bit bad for your health, not to mention the strain it puts on your car when you need to run the AC at max just to cool down a little. Luckily, Nissan and others have been looking at ways to reduce the temperature inside vehicles. One solution they’ve come up with is passive cooling paints and coatings. These are essentially coats that are added to the vehicle and contain various metamaterials designed to reflect sunlight away from the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXi9nrLWtAA This helps push heat away from the vehicle, and so far, tests have shown that passive cooling paint can reduce the temperature inside of a vehicle by up to 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius) even when the car is parked in direct sunlight. That’s a pretty huge improvement, all things considered, and it appears to be a bit more effective than something like a reflective windshield cover. These types of paint coatings have been around for a while now, too. The ultimate goal is to create a version that is not only able to cool the vehicles, but that can also have a clear topcoat and be applied from a spray gun like normal paint. Of course, it would also ideally be available in other colors instead of just the current white option that Nissan has come up with. You can see what the coat looks like in the video that Nissan shared on its YouTube channel—which I’ve embedded above. The video shows a bit more about how the cooling tech works, as well as how resistant it is to chipping, peeling, and other issues. Others have also been working on tech that can make any clothing cooler, so we could see some very revolutionary things coming out in the near future. Don't Miss: AI may soon let you record and rewatch your dreams The post Nissan invented paint that can cool its cars up to 21 degrees in the sun appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, $299 Apple Watch Series 9, $20 Blink Mini cam, Beats x Kardashian, more Today’s deals: $199 Apple iPad 9, $30 Crest 3D Whitestrips, $298 Sony XM5 ANC headphones, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $525+ free Today’s deals: $17 myQ, $399 Apple AirPods Max, $40 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, $180 off Sonos Arc, more

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