Вольфганг Шойбле, бывший министр финансов и председатель правительства Германии, заявил, что этой зимой в условиях энергетического кризиса немцы должны «перестать ныть» и «носить два свитера».
Шойбле прекрасно усвоил урок, который Путин преподаёт европейским политикам прямо сейчас: можно сколько угодно уничтожать свободы своего народа и хамить ему в лицо, пока это остаётся безнаказанным.
Вольфганг Шойбле, бывший министр финансов и председатель правительства Германии, заявил, что этой зимой в условиях энергетического кризиса немцы должны «перестать ныть» и «носить два свитера».
Шойбле прекрасно усвоил урок, который Путин преподаёт европейским политикам прямо сейчас: можно сколько угодно уничтожать свободы своего народа и хамить ему в лицо, пока это остаётся безнаказанным.
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. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications.
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