Драма, в данный момент разворачивающаяся в Сирии, стала сюрпризом и для Запада. Аналитики, пресса, военные эксперты — все в шоке. Никто не ожидал, что события станут развиваться настолько быстро, никто не ожидал такого стремительного продвижения боевиков.
А между тем всё происходящее всё сильнее начинает становиться похожим на афганские события 2021 года.
Драма, в данный момент разворачивающаяся в Сирии, стала сюрпризом и для Запада. Аналитики, пресса, военные эксперты — все в шоке. Никто не ожидал, что события станут развиваться настолько быстро, никто не ожидал такого стремительного продвижения боевиков.
А между тем всё происходящее всё сильнее начинает становиться похожим на афганские события 2021 года.
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." Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. READ MORE 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.
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