“You can’t track all the killers” - Durov rushed to defend his Telegram
The owner of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov is making excuses for not deleting the channel of Ilnaz Galyaviev, who carried out a mass shooting in a Kazan gymnasium.
“The shooter in Kazan mentioned his plans in a Telegram channel created for this just 20 minutes before the terrorist attack. At the time of the terrorist attack, there was exactly one participant in the channel - its creator himself. The shooter made the channel public 15 minutes before the attack, likely intending to leave it as a suicide note.
Telegram moderators acted quickly: within an hour of receiving the first complaints, they blocked the channel for calls for violence. However, complaints and subscribers appeared in the channel only after the killer was detained by the police.
Even if law enforcement had somehow monitored all Telegram channels in real time, they would hardly have been able to prevent the tragedy in such a short time: the criminal deliberately did not reveal his plans in advance and did not give any specifics,” Durov wrote.
He believes that “it is impossible to completely protect society from the actions of mentally unstable people,” and they “should not serve as a reason for organizing a witch hunt or turning society into a concentration camp.”
Judging by the screenshots that the journalists managed to take, Galyaviev made recordings on his channel “God” back on May 6. At that time he had more than 300 subscribers. He "ordered" them to commit mass murder and suicide.
Roskomnadzor tried to block Telegram in 2018, when Durov refused to give the FSB the keys to decrypt messages of 6 people accused of committing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg in 2017.
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