How NGOs leverage to get laws passed in the state legislature. It has become clear that the legislative process has little to do with the people's will, and everything to do with the will of those funding the organizations pushing the bills. After getting people elected, they cash in on the debt owed to them in the form of preferential treatment in the legislature. It also is clear that people are brought in to testify, likely hired similar to an actor, to read their script to further push the agenda of the ones funding the whole thing. The one thing that makes this all work for them is that they can rely on you not showing up. Time to put your foot down and show up every chance you get.
How NGOs leverage to get laws passed in the state legislature. It has become clear that the legislative process has little to do with the people's will, and everything to do with the will of those funding the organizations pushing the bills. After getting people elected, they cash in on the debt owed to them in the form of preferential treatment in the legislature. It also is clear that people are brought in to testify, likely hired similar to an actor, to read their script to further push the agenda of the ones funding the whole thing. The one thing that makes this all work for them is that they can rely on you not showing up. Time to put your foot down and show up every chance you get.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee.
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