Через пять минут начинаем последний в этом году стрим. Подведем итоги: военные, политические и репрессивные. Ведущий — Сергей Смирнов
Поговорим о ситуации на фронте, потерях российской армии, попытках властей полностью зачистить интернет-пространство, и об убийстве Алексея Навального. В гостях: журналистка Фарида Рустамова, военный аналитик Руслан Левиев, а еще журналисты «Медиазоны» Максим Литаврин, Давид Френкель и Татьяна Фельгенгауэр.
Через пять минут начинаем последний в этом году стрим. Подведем итоги: военные, политические и репрессивные. Ведущий — Сергей Смирнов
Поговорим о ситуации на фронте, потерях российской армии, попытках властей полностью зачистить интернет-пространство, и об убийстве Алексея Навального. В гостях: журналистка Фарида Рустамова, военный аналитик Руслан Левиев, а еще журналисты «Медиазоны» Максим Литаврин, Давид Френкель и Татьяна Фельгенгауэр.
Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. 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. 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. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said.
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