Liebe Ostdeutsche, seid Ihr 1989 dafür auf die Straßen gegangen, dass heute ein CDU-Einpeitscher namens Andreas Bühl im Thüringer Landtag ein solches Schmierentheater inszeniert? Und ein Möchtegern-Ministerpräsident Mario Voigt feist grinsend daneben sitzt?🤔 #Thueringen
Liebe Ostdeutsche, seid Ihr 1989 dafür auf die Straßen gegangen, dass heute ein CDU-Einpeitscher namens Andreas Bühl im Thüringer Landtag ein solches Schmierentheater inszeniert? Und ein Möchtegern-Ministerpräsident Mario Voigt feist grinsend daneben sitzt?🤔 #Thueringen
Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. 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.
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