Statement from Legal Team regarding recent reports of Christopher Hood defaulting in new NH Civil Rights case stemming from NSC 131 Concord DQSH Protest (https://www.group-telegram.com/NSC131official/282):
“The service the NH Attorney General has provided is questionable at best. We are going to defend against the due process violations relating to the service of process issue(s).
We are going to further defend against the NH AG's attack on free speech with a forthcoming motion to dismiss”
TLDR: Disregard, the courts are doing everything in their power to press buttons over technicalities. This will only make them look even worse when we win.
Statement from Legal Team regarding recent reports of Christopher Hood defaulting in new NH Civil Rights case stemming from NSC 131 Concord DQSH Protest (https://www.group-telegram.com/NSC131official/282):
“The service the NH Attorney General has provided is questionable at best. We are going to defend against the due process violations relating to the service of process issue(s).
We are going to further defend against the NH AG's attack on free speech with a forthcoming motion to dismiss”
TLDR: Disregard, the courts are doing everything in their power to press buttons over technicalities. This will only make them look even worse when we win.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. In a statement, the regulator said the search and seizure operation was carried out against seven individuals and one corporate entity at multiple locations in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar in Gujarat, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Mumbai. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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