بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم اللهمّ اعنّی فیهِ علی صِیامِهِ وقیامِهِ وجَنّبنی فیهِ من هَفَواتِهِ وآثامِهِ وارْزُقْنی فیهِ ذِکْرَکَ بِدوامِهِ بتوفیقِکَ یا هادیَ المُضِلّین.
خدایا یاری کن مرا در این روز بر روزه گرفتن و شب زنده داری و از لغزش ها و گناهانش دورم بدار و ذکرت را همواره روزی ام کن، به توفیقت ای راهنمای گمراهان.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم اللهمّ اعنّی فیهِ علی صِیامِهِ وقیامِهِ وجَنّبنی فیهِ من هَفَواتِهِ وآثامِهِ وارْزُقْنی فیهِ ذِکْرَکَ بِدوامِهِ بتوفیقِکَ یا هادیَ المُضِلّین.
خدایا یاری کن مرا در این روز بر روزه گرفتن و شب زنده داری و از لغزش ها و گناهانش دورم بدار و ذکرت را همواره روزی ام کن، به توفیقت ای راهنمای گمراهان.
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. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. 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. 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. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
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