Спустя четыре года ситуация на севере Сирии снова накаляется. Террористы захватили Алеппо, второй по значимости город в стране. При этом среди мятежников оказываются исламисты-радикалы со всего мира, в том числе из Средней Азии. Кому выгодна дестабилизация Сирии? Рассказали в рубрике "Реакция".
* "Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам" ("Организация освобождения Леванта", "Хейят Тахрир аш-Шам", "Хайят Тахри аш-Шам", "Тахрир аш-Шам") решением Верховного суда РФ от 4 июня 2020 г. признана террористической организацией, её деятельность в России запрещена.
Спустя четыре года ситуация на севере Сирии снова накаляется. Террористы захватили Алеппо, второй по значимости город в стране. При этом среди мятежников оказываются исламисты-радикалы со всего мира, в том числе из Средней Азии. Кому выгодна дестабилизация Сирии? Рассказали в рубрике "Реакция".
* "Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам" ("Организация освобождения Леванта", "Хейят Тахрир аш-Шам", "Хайят Тахри аш-Шам", "Тахрир аш-Шам") решением Верховного суда РФ от 4 июня 2020 г. признана террористической организацией, её деятельность в России запрещена.
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. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. 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. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government.
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