Самокритичное из Госдумы. Там предложили отменить уголовное наказание за оскорбление депутатов, так как порой депутаты говорят такое, что буквально сами нарываются на оскорбления. И примеров подобных «выдающихся высказываний» немало.
С идеей выступил депутат Нечаев. Он предложил «создавать для людей возможности, а запреты только для себя оставить». Остальные депутаты, судя по жидким аплодисментам, революционную инициативу коллеги не поддержали.
Самокритичное из Госдумы. Там предложили отменить уголовное наказание за оскорбление депутатов, так как порой депутаты говорят такое, что буквально сами нарываются на оскорбления. И примеров подобных «выдающихся высказываний» немало.
С идеей выступил депутат Нечаев. Он предложил «создавать для людей возможности, а запреты только для себя оставить». Остальные депутаты, судя по жидким аплодисментам, революционную инициативу коллеги не поддержали.
Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. 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. 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. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis."
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