I’ve noticed a few things in the coverage of this new Anglo Saxon sword from Kent. Firstly, several mainstream media outlets brazenly used the term Anglo Saxon once more, despite it being a charged term in modern academia. Secondly, a pendant of a kind often found in women’s burials was found in the warrior’s burial, which they’re saying was likely a gift or family heirloom, as opposed to trying to claim he was some kind of gender bender, as they often do with female burials containing weapons for example. The radical left is backing down. We’re winning.
I’ve noticed a few things in the coverage of this new Anglo Saxon sword from Kent. Firstly, several mainstream media outlets brazenly used the term Anglo Saxon once more, despite it being a charged term in modern academia. Secondly, a pendant of a kind often found in women’s burials was found in the warrior’s burial, which they’re saying was likely a gift or family heirloom, as opposed to trying to claim he was some kind of gender bender, as they often do with female burials containing weapons for example. The radical left is backing down. We’re winning.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. In this regard, Sebi collaborated with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to reduce the vulnerability of the securities market to manipulation through misuse of mass communication medium like bulk SMS. In December 2021, Sebi officials had conducted a search and seizure operation at the premises of certain persons carrying out similar manipulative activities through Telegram channels.
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