Сергей Михайлович — очень востребованный политик. 32 желающих смотреть его прямой эфир! Мы переживали, что так и останется 20, как в начале, но всё же удалось дойти до 32! Это же почти вся фракция «Единой России» Верховного Совета Хакасии! Но нет, даже она не вся. И уж тем более не все депутаты. И совсем грустно, если вычесть журналистов местных СМИ.
Сергей Михайлович — очень востребованный политик. 32 желающих смотреть его прямой эфир! Мы переживали, что так и останется 20, как в начале, но всё же удалось дойти до 32! Это же почти вся фракция «Единой России» Верховного Совета Хакасии! Но нет, даже она не вся. И уж тем более не все депутаты. И совсем грустно, если вычесть журналистов местных СМИ.
This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. 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.
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