Shortly following Durov’s detention, Snowden—a former American NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower—took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize the shockingly arbitrary arrest.

“First they came for Tiktok, and I did not speak out—because I was not twelve years old. Then they came for the Telegram, and I did not speak out—because I was using some other app or something. Then they came for literally every other platform for dissent, and I did not speak out—because bro, how tf could I—that’s the entire point—wake up, wake up,wa—” Snowden said on X.

Related: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France for Multiple Offenses

One of the first to highlight the “#FreePavel” movement was the X account of SpaceX founder. Musk then started a flurry of postings on his social media page outlining his worries over the attack on free expression.

Just hours following Durov’s detention, he tweeted, “Being a free speech advocate these days is increasingly feeling like a Kobayashi Maru problem.” David Sacks of Craft Ventures noted, “Using allied countries to circumvent First Amendment protections is the new Rendition.”

In an X post titled “It’s hard to imagine a country both arresting the founder of Telegram and being a major startup hub,” computer scientist Paul Graham also protested Durov’s detention.

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