"يميل الشباب في المجتمعات الغربية عادة إلى التفلت والإباحية وانعدام الحياء ويتربون بحيث يتجهون نحو ارتكاب الجرائم والاعتداء وهم غارقون في الفساد الأخلاقي. إن جيلاً كهذا، مهما بلغ مستواه من العلم والمعرفة والثروة، سيكون بالنسبة لأي مجتمع كحشرة الأرض التي تقرض أسس هذا المجتمع ونظامه وتقضي عليها...
الإمام القائد السيد علي #الخامنئي (حفظه الله) 22 كانون أول 2021
"يميل الشباب في المجتمعات الغربية عادة إلى التفلت والإباحية وانعدام الحياء ويتربون بحيث يتجهون نحو ارتكاب الجرائم والاعتداء وهم غارقون في الفساد الأخلاقي. إن جيلاً كهذا، مهما بلغ مستواه من العلم والمعرفة والثروة، سيكون بالنسبة لأي مجتمع كحشرة الأرض التي تقرض أسس هذا المجتمع ونظامه وتقضي عليها...
الإمام القائد السيد علي #الخامنئي (حفظه الله) 22 كانون أول 2021
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. 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. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities.
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