Поскольку к "Нонфику" я, лентяй такой, ничо не выпустил, участвовать приглашен только в одном мероприятии 7 декабря. Но поскольку лентяй я такой вот, кое-что выйдет уже после "Нонфика". К середине декабря до магазинов должен доехать красивенный, цветной, широкоформатный и на пленке "Тасма" по заказу Гостелерадиосборник "Чудо как предчувствие" с моим новейшим рассказом "Только там радость" (предзаказ уже доступен). А два микромегаанонса, относящихся к началу следующего года, пытливый читатель найдет в последних абзацах издательских поздравлений: тут и тут.
Поскольку к "Нонфику" я, лентяй такой, ничо не выпустил, участвовать приглашен только в одном мероприятии 7 декабря. Но поскольку лентяй я такой вот, кое-что выйдет уже после "Нонфика". К середине декабря до магазинов должен доехать красивенный, цветной, широкоформатный и на пленке "Тасма" по заказу Гостелерадиосборник "Чудо как предчувствие" с моим новейшим рассказом "Только там радость" (предзаказ уже доступен). А два микромегаанонса, относящихся к началу следующего года, пытливый читатель найдет в последних абзацах издательских поздравлений: тут и тут.
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. 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. 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. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." 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.
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