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One thing someone recently mentioned, and not in a conspiracist way, was that many western countries have secret courts overseeing national security issues. At least in the US, people summoned or presented to the court often have very intense gag orders, so they can’t breath a word about the proceedings without guaranteed federal prison time.

I’m no fan of telegram as it’s a well known tool of the Russian state, but arresting a CEO because of something like a lack of moderators on their site feels like a stretch and a dangerous precedent.

I can't find the article now but roughly telegram isn't actually end to end encrypted by default and they were storing a lot of illegal stuff on their own servers. They were told not to, but continued, hence arrest.

Seems pretty simple to me: either him and his company ARE complying with the EU laws or they are not. That's for the courts to decide and since he/his company chose not to cooperate where there has been suspected wrong-doing they've nabbed him.