Last week, I wrote to you about how the Russian opposition and the Kremlin came together to defend Telegram founder Pavel Durov following his arrest in Paris on charges that he essentially abetted the rampant trafficking in weapons, drugs, and child sexual-abuse material that takes place on his messaging app. (He was later released on bail.) Perhaps for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the government of Vladimir Putin and those trying to overthrow it agreed on something: Durov was a free speech warrior, and his detention by the French government was an assault on that essential freedom by a hypocritical West.