Except Google is taking down any illegal data they are asked to takedown or to give to law enforcement.
Durov is not arrested to have hosted illegal content but to deliberately have not do anything against it when asked to.
If you did something illegal via Gmail and the law enforcement asked for your mails to Google, they’d give them. Telegram voluntarily did not.
Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.
> Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.
Durov is not arrested to have hosted illegal content but to deliberately have not do anything against it when asked to.
If you did something illegal via Gmail and the law enforcement asked for your mails to Google, they’d give them. Telegram voluntarily did not.
Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.