[bananapub]

> If Durov is liable for crimes committed on his platform how far away are we from making phone companies and ISPs liable for crimes committed using their services?

er...did you miss the last twenty years?

the US government destroyed a website for prostitution ads: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/backpage-principals-convicted...

the US government has destroyed every darknet market they could find, despite most of them not selling any drugs themselves.

CSAM is taken extremely seriously and any web site that hosts it will be pursued to the end of the earth.

etc.

this is not a new thing at all.

> However if a company does not have this data (because it's encrypted) it should not be liable or be required to collect such data.

Telegram deliberately and suspiciously encrypts approximately nothing in a way that helps anyone, so this is completely irrelevant.