„Man könnte sagen, daß immer ein bestimmtes Maß an Gläubigkeit besteht, das durch die Kirchen legitim gestillt wurde. Nun, frei geworden, heftet sich die Kraft an all- und jedes an.Daher die Leichtgläubigkeit des modernen Menschen, bei gleichzeitigem Unglauben. Er glaubt, was in der Zeitung, doch nicht, was in den Sternen geschrieben steht.“
„Man könnte sagen, daß immer ein bestimmtes Maß an Gläubigkeit besteht, das durch die Kirchen legitim gestillt wurde. Nun, frei geworden, heftet sich die Kraft an all- und jedes an.Daher die Leichtgläubigkeit des modernen Menschen, bei gleichzeitigem Unglauben. Er glaubt, was in der Zeitung, doch nicht, was in den Sternen geschrieben steht.“
WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said.
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