На мексикано-американской границе не в первый раз поднимают вопросы особого отношения к россиянам. В последнее время, однако, стали все чаще появляться новости о том, что людей на границе с США действительно ущемляют в правах и не предоставляют им адвокатов.
Наш корреспондент побеседовал на эту тему с признанным «иноагентом» политологом и преподавателем университета Беркли Ильей Матвеевым, а также президентом Russian America for Democracy in Russia Дмитрием Валуевым.
На мексикано-американской границе не в первый раз поднимают вопросы особого отношения к россиянам. В последнее время, однако, стали все чаще появляться новости о том, что людей на границе с США действительно ущемляют в правах и не предоставляют им адвокатов.
Наш корреспондент побеседовал на эту тему с признанным «иноагентом» политологом и преподавателем университета Беркли Ильей Матвеевым, а также президентом Russian America for Democracy in Russia Дмитрием Валуевым.
In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. 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. 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. He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source." Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy."
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