В под завязку забитом бизнес-зале аэропорта понадобился стул. Подошел к мужикам, у которых был пустой и вроде как лишний (стоял свободный в паре метров от стола), спросил, нужен ли – ответили, что нужен. Поискал еще, через пару минут нашел и – так случайно получилось – сел рядом с ними.
Оказалось, в под завязку забитом бизнес-зале стул нужен был мужикам в качестве подставки для рюкзаков (и для ног одного из них – это сфоткать не успел).
Жизнь – бумеранг: уверен, и этих достопочтенных господ однажды обязательно настигнут проблемы со стулом.
В под завязку забитом бизнес-зале аэропорта понадобился стул. Подошел к мужикам, у которых был пустой и вроде как лишний (стоял свободный в паре метров от стола), спросил, нужен ли – ответили, что нужен. Поискал еще, через пару минут нашел и – так случайно получилось – сел рядом с ними.
Оказалось, в под завязку забитом бизнес-зале стул нужен был мужикам в качестве подставки для рюкзаков (и для ног одного из них – это сфоткать не успел).
Жизнь – бумеранг: уверен, и этих достопочтенных господ однажды обязательно настигнут проблемы со стулом.
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. 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. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care.
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