[hackcasual]

Trying to understand his legal situation by analogizing with US law understanding strikes me as some real Dunning-Kruegering. Surely someone like Preston Byrne has someone he can reach out to to get a better understanding of the actual French legal situation Durov is in.

[repelsteeltje]

+1.

Reading the article I was baffled to see all this talk about section 230 of communication and decency act. Telegram moved from Russia to Dubai and Durov was arrested in France.

Using the US hammer on a foreign nail gives vibes of Team America - World Police parody.

[sofixa]

Yeah, a lot of people, commentators, HNers, Redditors invoke US laws and procedures as reasoning and for comparison. Which is bordering on the useless - okay, you think he wouldn't have been arrested in the US, cool, what does that actually tell us about him being arrested in France? Nothing? You didn't even bother to look up how warrants and arrests and criminal proceedings work in France? Thank you for wasting my time with your commentary.

[pjbyrne]

The article was written for the benefit of Americans with business operations in France, so understanding why America is way better than France to run a social media company is relevant information.

That the article wound up being circulated to a bunch of Europeans who thought it was an article about French law after someone posted it on HN is something of an accident; the article isn't for them (unless of course they're planning on starting a social media company, in which case leaving Europe and setting up shop in America on a permanent basis would be recommended). The very fact of his arrest is enough for Americans to know to steer clear of the EU going forward.

[perching_aix]

People who whine about Redditors are like people who whine about anime being for pedos. They're almost always what they complain about.

You managed to avoid being supposedly insufferable by refusing to parrot that Dunning-Kruger has been disproven, yet you still insisted on being actually insufferable by doing this whole performative holier-than-thou dance, to then end on a strawman (no, they did not say what you or the author can or cannot talk about).

Why? Do you legitimately not have even a shred of self-reflection? Or should I allege you're an "NPC", if that's maybe closer to your vernacular?