✍ من فرمانروایانی را که اکثریت مردم را دشمن خود ساخته‌اند و مجبورند برای حفظ مقام خود به زور توسل جویند، بدبخت می‌دانم زیرا آنکه دشمنان اندکی دارد بآسانی می‌تواند خود را از گزند آنان مصون نگاه دارد ولی کسی که اکثریت مردمان با او دشمنند هرگز روی ایمنی و آسایش نمی‌بیند و هر چه بیشتر ستمگری پیشه کند حکومت خود را ضعیفتر می‌سازد. از این رو بهترین راهی که قدرتمندان در پیش می‌توانند گرفت این است که بکوشند تا دوستی مردم را جلب کنند.
✍ من فرمانروایانی را که اکثریت مردم را دشمن خود ساخته‌اند و مجبورند برای حفظ مقام خود به زور توسل جویند، بدبخت می‌دانم زیرا آنکه دشمنان اندکی دارد بآسانی می‌تواند خود را از گزند آنان مصون نگاه دارد ولی کسی که اکثریت مردمان با او دشمنند هرگز روی ایمنی و آسایش نمی‌بیند و هر چه بیشتر ستمگری پیشه کند حکومت خود را ضعیفتر می‌سازد. از این رو بهترین راهی که قدرتمندان در پیش می‌توانند گرفت این است که بکوشند تا دوستی مردم را جلب کنند.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. 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. 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. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups.
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