Идея с независимостью Калифорнийской народной республики не такая уж и безумная. Формально у штатов в США больше прав, чем у республик в СССР. Вот такую бомбу заложили отцы-основатели. Калифорния - самый густонаселенный штат с самым большим ВВП. Ведь и в СССР никому в голову не приходило, что 12.06.1991 парламент РСФСР провозгласит независимость туловища от рук и ног и это будут отмечать как государственный праздник. Потом, опять же, майдан 22.08.1991 в Москве (тоже госпраздник, кстати), а потом добивание противников развала страны из танков 4.10.1993. Трампу очень серьезный звонок.
Идея с независимостью Калифорнийской народной республики не такая уж и безумная. Формально у штатов в США больше прав, чем у республик в СССР. Вот такую бомбу заложили отцы-основатели. Калифорния - самый густонаселенный штат с самым большим ВВП. Ведь и в СССР никому в голову не приходило, что 12.06.1991 парламент РСФСР провозгласит независимость туловища от рук и ног и это будут отмечать как государственный праздник. Потом, опять же, майдан 22.08.1991 в Москве (тоже госпраздник, кстати), а потом добивание противников развала страны из танков 4.10.1993. Трампу очень серьезный звонок.
"There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. 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. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said.
from jp