❗️ Сегодня назначены глава Метрополитена и посол в Нидерландах. Оба события ничего для нас, обычных граждан, не меняют. Строительство новых станций будет осуществляться теми же черепашьими темпами, а отношения с Нидерландами останутся такими же, то бишь никакими.
Интересно другое. В Азербайджане кадровые изменения - явление настолько редкое, что любое увольнение или назначение вызывает хоть незначительное, но все же оживление в нашей серой внутриполитической повестке.
❗️ Сегодня назначены глава Метрополитена и посол в Нидерландах. Оба события ничего для нас, обычных граждан, не меняют. Строительство новых станций будет осуществляться теми же черепашьими темпами, а отношения с Нидерландами останутся такими же, то бишь никакими.
Интересно другое. В Азербайджане кадровые изменения - явление настолько редкое, что любое увольнение или назначение вызывает хоть незначительное, но все же оживление в нашей серой внутриполитической повестке.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. 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. 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. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback.
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