I hope the monstrous individuals involved with this event are removed from their positions and replaced with competent people who have the capacity for empathy.
No amount of disgust and rage will ever repair our sins against the living system. No amount of anger or sadness will make up for the inhuman actions of such people.
This is a dark spot on us as a species. Kidnapping this man's pet and killing it after he raised it for 7 years. It's just an example of how far we have to go to be something positive for this world.
I hope the monstrous individuals involved with this event are removed from their positions and replaced with competent people who have the capacity for empathy.
No amount of disgust and rage will ever repair our sins against the living system. No amount of anger or sadness will make up for the inhuman actions of such people.
This is a dark spot on us as a species. Kidnapping this man's pet and killing it after he raised it for 7 years. It's just an example of how far we have to go to be something positive for this world.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. "Markets were cheering this economic recovery and return to strong economic growth, but the cheers will turn to tears if the inflation outbreak pushes businesses and consumers to the brink of recession," he added. Perpetrators of such fraud use various marketing techniques to attract subscribers on their social media channels. 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. One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals.
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