“In den USA haben die Republikaner ein Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht, das Sanktionen gegen den IStGH vorsieht. In diesem Gesetz ist von Einreiseverboten und der Beschlagnahme privater Vermögenswerte die Rede. Von Kontosperren.”
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„An alle Verbündeten – Kanada, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich: Wenn ihr versucht, dem IStGH zu helfen, werden wir euch sanktionieren“, sagte Graham im Fernsehsender Fox News.”
“In den USA haben die Republikaner ein Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht, das Sanktionen gegen den IStGH vorsieht. In diesem Gesetz ist von Einreiseverboten und der Beschlagnahme privater Vermögenswerte die Rede. Von Kontosperren.”
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„An alle Verbündeten – Kanada, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich: Wenn ihr versucht, dem IStGH zu helfen, werden wir euch sanktionieren“, sagte Graham im Fernsehsender Fox News.”
The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. "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 channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. 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.
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