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- If you're American, you may not have heard of, or used, Telegram.
- In some parts of the world, though, the just-about-anything-goes messaging app is a big deal.
- Which is why the arrest of its founder, and the questions that raises, is a big deal, too.
French police arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov over the weekend. The move generated alarm among the services' 900 million users around the world, as well as other observers wondering what it meant for other tech and social-media companies that do business around the globe.