Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, shared a bold statement emphasizing Telegram’s commitment to freedom of speech. While Durov didn’t explicitly name anyone, his remarks appear to reference recent announcements by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about reducing censorship on Meta platforms.
Zuckerberg had attributed this policy shift to recent political changes, including Trump's election win, calling it a "tipping point" for free speech.
In his statement, Durov highlighted Telegram’s long-standing support for freedom of speech, independent of political climates, and criticized rival platforms, saying, "The real test of their values will come when political winds change again. It’s easy to support something when you risk nothing."
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, shared a bold statement emphasizing Telegram’s commitment to freedom of speech. While Durov didn’t explicitly name anyone, his remarks appear to reference recent announcements by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about reducing censorship on Meta platforms.
Zuckerberg had attributed this policy shift to recent political changes, including Trump's election win, calling it a "tipping point" for free speech.
In his statement, Durov highlighted Telegram’s long-standing support for freedom of speech, independent of political climates, and criticized rival platforms, saying, "The real test of their values will come when political winds change again. It’s easy to support something when you risk nothing."
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. The regulator took order for the search and seizure operation from Judge Purushottam B Jadhav, Sebi Special Judge / Additional Sessions Judge. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. 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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