5 Sep 2024

Tech: What next for Telegram? Brazil vs X

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 5 September 2024
Pavel Durov

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Technology correspondent Juha Saarinen looks at the arrest of Telegram's founder Pavel Durov and why so many free-speech absolutists have railed about it.

He'll talk about what's on the platform and why a lack of encryption might be making a lot of people nervous.

And Brazil's supreme court has blocked X (formerly Twitter), but Elon Musk's Starlink network has said it would comply with the ruling to remain operational in the country.

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