🇷🇸 Around 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Belgrade to oppose President Vučić’s government, according to police reports. Unofficial estimates suggest the number was closer to 100,000. While Ukrainians know Vučić for his pro-Russian stance, Serbians are protesting corruption within his administration.
🇷🇸 Around 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Belgrade to oppose President Vučić’s government, according to police reports. Unofficial estimates suggest the number was closer to 100,000. While Ukrainians know Vučić for his pro-Russian stance, Serbians are protesting corruption within his administration.
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. Sebi said data, emails and other documents are being retrieved from the seized devices and detailed investigation is in progress. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. 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.
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