№112! Встречаем 2024-й год с гостем! К микрофону призван Максим Данилов — associate producer в Saber Interactive. Узнали, чем занимается видеоигровой продюсер, как попасть в индустрию после государственной конторы, зачем кот стучит по батарее и кто делает Half-Life 3.
№112! Встречаем 2024-й год с гостем! К микрофону призван Максим Данилов — associate producer в Saber Interactive. Узнали, чем занимается видеоигровой продюсер, как попасть в индустрию после государственной конторы, зачем кот стучит по батарее и кто делает Half-Life 3.
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said.
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