Марк — трансмужчина, активист и волонтер. Его приговорили к 12 годам колонии по статье о госизмене. В первые сутки войны Марк отправил 10 долларов на поддержку Украины. Учитывая условия российских колоний, Марку нужна регулярная адвокатская поддержка. Подробнее о его деле мы рассказывали в этом посте.
Марк — трансмужчина, активист и волонтер. Его приговорили к 12 годам колонии по статье о госизмене. В первые сутки войны Марк отправил 10 долларов на поддержку Украины. Учитывая условия российских колоний, Марку нужна регулярная адвокатская поддержка. Подробнее о его деле мы рассказывали в этом посте.
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. 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. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK.
from ar
