"Американские системы ПРО в Европе не смогут перехватить российские гиперзвуковые ракеты. Мы вас об этом предупреждали, однако вы свой выбор сделали", — зампостпреда России при ООН о разрешении западных стран бить своим оружием по объектам в России.
"Американские системы ПРО в Европе не смогут перехватить российские гиперзвуковые ракеты. Мы вас об этом предупреждали, однако вы свой выбор сделали", — зампостпреда России при ООН о разрешении западных стран бить своим оружием по объектам в России.
Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. 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. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." 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.
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