ÖVP hat die Hosen gestrichen voll - Wir sprechen Klartext
Am 29. September, dem Wahltag, wird mehreren Chefredakteuren unabhängiger Medien – darunter auch RTV – der Zutritt zum Parlament verweigert. Eine Begründung dafür gibt es bisweilen nicht. Was steckt hinter dieser erschütternden Entscheidung? Wer zieht hier die Fäden? Ist dies der letzte verzweifelte Versuch des Deep State, die dringend nötige Wende in unserem Land zu verhindern? Darüber sprechen wir heute Klartext mit einem weiteren Betroffenen, einem mutigen Kämpfer für die Wahrheit: Michael Scharfmüller, Chefredakteur von Info-DIREKT.
ÖVP hat die Hosen gestrichen voll - Wir sprechen Klartext
Am 29. September, dem Wahltag, wird mehreren Chefredakteuren unabhängiger Medien – darunter auch RTV – der Zutritt zum Parlament verweigert. Eine Begründung dafür gibt es bisweilen nicht. Was steckt hinter dieser erschütternden Entscheidung? Wer zieht hier die Fäden? Ist dies der letzte verzweifelte Versuch des Deep State, die dringend nötige Wende in unserem Land zu verhindern? Darüber sprechen wir heute Klartext mit einem weiteren Betroffenen, einem mutigen Kämpfer für die Wahrheit: Michael Scharfmüller, Chefredakteur von Info-DIREKT.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” 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. 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. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. 'Wild West'
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