Год начинается с двух ключевых событий: инаугурации президента Мадуро в Венесуэле и возвращения Трампа в Белый дом.
Последние события в мире — конфликт на Ближнем Востоке, война на Украине, напряженная обстановка в Индо-Тихоокеанском регионе, кризис в Европе — не предвещали угрозы возникновения нового вооруженного столкновения на «задворках» США — в Латинской Америке. Во всяком случае, до победы на президентских выборах Дональда Трампа.
Многие латиноамериканские политические и бизнес-лидеры теперь с тревогой смотрят на перспективы-2025, опасаясь наихудших сценариев, которые могут возникнуть в результате возвращения Дональда Трампа в Белый дом.
Год начинается с двух ключевых событий: инаугурации президента Мадуро в Венесуэле и возвращения Трампа в Белый дом.
Последние события в мире — конфликт на Ближнем Востоке, война на Украине, напряженная обстановка в Индо-Тихоокеанском регионе, кризис в Европе — не предвещали угрозы возникновения нового вооруженного столкновения на «задворках» США — в Латинской Америке. Во всяком случае, до победы на президентских выборах Дональда Трампа.
Многие латиноамериканские политические и бизнес-лидеры теперь с тревогой смотрят на перспективы-2025, опасаясь наихудших сценариев, которые могут возникнуть в результате возвращения Дональда Трампа в Белый дом.
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. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. 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. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea.
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