🔰 Highlights of Leader's speech during the meeting with Iranian officials and ambassadors from Islamic countries on Jan. 28, 2025
🔸In the first stage of colonialism, the oppressive powers began by plundering resources. If you read the history of colonialism, you'll see the first thing they targeted and were after was natural resources. That was the beginning.
🔹The second stage of colonialism involved the destruction of the original cultures of nations, which is truly heartbreaking. In Africa, age-old civilizations and cultures existed that were totally destroyed by colonial powers. In fact, they plundered there too and stole their culture.
🔸In the third stage of colonialism, their goal was the national and religious identities of nations, and their aim was to take that away too.
🔰 Highlights of Leader's speech during the meeting with Iranian officials and ambassadors from Islamic countries on Jan. 28, 2025
🔸In the first stage of colonialism, the oppressive powers began by plundering resources. If you read the history of colonialism, you'll see the first thing they targeted and were after was natural resources. That was the beginning.
🔹The second stage of colonialism involved the destruction of the original cultures of nations, which is truly heartbreaking. In Africa, age-old civilizations and cultures existed that were totally destroyed by colonial powers. In fact, they plundered there too and stole their culture.
🔸In the third stage of colonialism, their goal was the national and religious identities of nations, and their aim was to take that away too.
He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. 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.
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