Безрассудные решения западных стран не останутся без реакции со стороны России – это «главный месседж», который Владимир Путин послал своим обращением, заявил пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков.
📣 «Возможности российская сторона четко продемонстрировала, и контуры дальнейших ответных действий, в случае если наши озабоченности не будут приняты во внимание, вполне тоже однозначно очерчены», - отметил он.
Безрассудные решения западных стран не останутся без реакции со стороны России – это «главный месседж», который Владимир Путин послал своим обращением, заявил пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков.
📣 «Возможности российская сторона четко продемонстрировала, и контуры дальнейших ответных действий, в случае если наши озабоченности не будут приняты во внимание, вполне тоже однозначно очерчены», - отметил он.
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. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. 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. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders.
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