{"id":12007,"date":"2024-09-02T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2024-09-09T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:13:57","slug":"telegram-gruender-durov-verhaftet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/telegram-gruender-durov-verhaftet\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Founder &amp; CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France as Online Censorship Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">We are transitioning away from YouTube. 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