‘Darkness Descending’ – Tucker Carlson Reacts to Reports of Telegram CEO’s Arrest
The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France is a warning to online platforms that stand up to censorship, American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has said.
The Russian tech entrepreneur was detained at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday and will appear in court on Sunday evening. French authorities had reportedly issued an arrest warrant against him, arguing that insufficient moderation allows for Telegram to be widely used by criminals.
The news of Durov’s apparent prosecution has raised concerns online, including suggestions that it could be politically motivated.
“Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech,” Carlson wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. “It was a Western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away.”
Durov’s arrest is “a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies,” Carlson argued. “Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world.”
Carlson recorded a rare interview with Durov in April, in which the Telegram owner spoke about his disagreements with the Russian government, as well as the pressure he faced in the US. He said that the American government had wanted him to set up a surveillance “backdoor” on his messaging service, and he refused.
X owner Elon Musk also condemned the reported arrest. “POV: It’s 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme,” he wrote in a comment to the news story.
Telegram was launched in 2013 and currently has more than 950 million active monthly users. Durov is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, but has been mostly been living in the UAE since the mid-2010s. He became a French and an Emirati citizen in 2021.
Top Republican Asks How Biden Admin ‘Lost Track’ Of 300,000 Illegal Migrant Children
Sen. Josh Hawley is demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on how it lost track of nearly 300,000 unaccomapnied migrant children within the US. Untold numbers of these missing children are at […]
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French Police Arrest Telegram Founder for Refusing To Censor ‘Non-Mainstream’ Content
The Macron regime in France has arrested the founder of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, due to his refusal to censor ‘non-mainstream’ content on the platform. Durov, who obtained a French passport in 2021, was […]
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BBC Hired Convicted Pedophiles To Chauffeur Children and Elite VIPs
The BBC hired convicted pedophiles to chauffeur children and elite VIPs for over 30 years, according to a new report. A chauffeur service headed by a convicted child rapist was used by the BBC from […]
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RFK Jr. Exposes Cancer Links To Seed Oils & Processed Foods on Mainstream TV
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend” this week detailing his pledge to expose the food industry’s plot to make the nation severely ill. RFK Jr. explained the how seed […]
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DARPA Funding Project To Turn Plastic Waste into Food for Soldiers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding research to turn military plastic waste into a variety of different useful products, including food for military personnel.
According to Ars Technica, DARPA first put out a call in 2019 for projects to deal with the large amounts of plastic waste produced by military units when they work in remote locations.
The agency wanted a system that could convert plastic wrappers, water bottles and other plastic waste into usable products, such as fuel and rations. The system would have to be compact enough to fit in a Humvee, capable of running on low amounts of energy and use plastic-eating microbes.
DARPA’s goal, according to microbiologist Stephen Techtmann, who works at Michigan Technological University, is not to feed soldiers products made from the plastic, but the microbes themselves that digest and transform it. Techtmann and his team believe the technology will be available soon, and are currently conducting toxicity testing to ensure that plastic-eating microbes are safe for human consumption.
The system being developed by Michigan Tech involves using a small shredder to reduce plastic waste in size, before burning it and subject it to chemical treatment which allows it to be digested by special bacteria. These bacteria were found in compost piles. Many naturally occurring bacteria already have the ability to digest plastics.
After the bacteria have consumed the specially prepared plastic, they are then dried into a powder that “smells a bit like nutritional yeast” and has a balanced nutritional profile of protein, carbohydrates and fats.
Techtmann notes that there is still a significant problem, the “ick factor,” to be overcome for consumers, even in the military, but that personnel in remove locations and disaster zones would probably have less concern if the choice were between eating microbes and eating nothing.
“I think there’s a bit less of a concern about the ick factor,” said Techtmann, “if it’s really just, ‘This is going to keep me alive for another day or two.’”
A number of companies around the world are working to produce edible microbes, including a Finnish company called Solar Foods, which has created a powder that is already approved for sale in Singapore. The company is currently applying for approval for their product in the EU and the UK.