Сею секунду читаю вот эту книжку, волновалась про нее, потому что книга русскоязычная, рассказывающая историю катастрофы в Руанде, и это всегда опасный момент для автор_ки — не экзотизировать другую страну, не налажать с фактами, вообще написать правдивую историю о другом мире. И, кажется, у Ульяны Бисеровой получилось очень сильное и правдивое высказывание.
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Сею секунду читаю вот эту книжку, волновалась про нее, потому что книга русскоязычная, рассказывающая историю катастрофы в Руанде, и это всегда опасный момент для автор_ки — не экзотизировать другую страну, не налажать с фактами, вообще написать правдивую историю о другом мире. И, кажется, у Ульяны Бисеровой получилось очень сильное и правдивое высказывание.
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Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. 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. 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. False news often spreads via public groups, or chats, with potentially fatal effects. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai.
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