⚡️🏳️🌈 Стройные ряды иноагентов пополнил «Московский комьюнити-центр для ЛГБТ-инициатив», который пару недель назад радовал шестнадцатилетних москвичей квир-визуальным искусством Туманного Альбиона.
Работать он, конечно, не перестанет. Но теперь хотя бы будет вынужден рассказать, кто за все это великолепие платит.
⚡️🏳️🌈 Стройные ряды иноагентов пополнил «Московский комьюнити-центр для ЛГБТ-инициатив», который пару недель назад радовал шестнадцатилетних москвичей квир-визуальным искусством Туманного Альбиона.
Работать он, конечно, не перестанет. Но теперь хотя бы будет вынужден рассказать, кто за все это великолепие платит.
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. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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