"Gewaltfreie Mittel müssten immer im Vordergrund bei der Konfliktlösung stehen. Es gäbe nur einen gerechten Frieden, aber keinen gerechten Krieg." So wurde vor 20 Jahren die Predigt des damaligen Landesbischofs von Berlin in der Tagesschau wiedergegeben. Es gab damals große Anti-Kriegs-Demonstrationen gegen den späteren, auf Lügen beruhenden, Krieg gegen den Irak. Sogar Regierungsmitglieder gingen damals demonstrieren, und dadurch wurden die Demonstrationen natürlich auch von den Staatsmedien recht objektiv dargestellt, im Gegensatz zu heute. Jedoch: ist der Satz aus der Predigt nicht eigentlich zeitlos gültig?
"Gewaltfreie Mittel müssten immer im Vordergrund bei der Konfliktlösung stehen. Es gäbe nur einen gerechten Frieden, aber keinen gerechten Krieg." So wurde vor 20 Jahren die Predigt des damaligen Landesbischofs von Berlin in der Tagesschau wiedergegeben. Es gab damals große Anti-Kriegs-Demonstrationen gegen den späteren, auf Lügen beruhenden, Krieg gegen den Irak. Sogar Regierungsmitglieder gingen damals demonstrieren, und dadurch wurden die Demonstrationen natürlich auch von den Staatsmedien recht objektiv dargestellt, im Gegensatz zu heute. Jedoch: ist der Satz aus der Predigt nicht eigentlich zeitlos gültig?
On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. 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. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed.
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