Структуры владельца "Северстали" Алексея Мордашова ожидаемо начали использовать отставкуАлександра Поветкина с должности замгубернатора по спорту и молодежной политике Вологодской области как повод для атаки на главу региона Георгия Филимонова.
Пока что эффект скорее обратный: демонстрируется, что Филимонов может спокойно уволить всего через семь месяцев после трудоустройства даже Олимпийского чемпиона. Не каждый губернатор решится на такой шаг, и не факт, что он пройдет без последствий. В отличие от Филимонова, который использует свою эксцентричность как естественную защиту от последствий публичной критики.
Структуры владельца "Северстали" Алексея Мордашова ожидаемо начали использовать отставкуАлександра Поветкина с должности замгубернатора по спорту и молодежной политике Вологодской области как повод для атаки на главу региона Георгия Филимонова.
Пока что эффект скорее обратный: демонстрируется, что Филимонов может спокойно уволить всего через семь месяцев после трудоустройства даже Олимпийского чемпиона. Не каждый губернатор решится на такой шаг, и не факт, что он пройдет без последствий. В отличие от Филимонова, который использует свою эксцентричность как естественную защиту от последствий публичной критики.
Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. 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. 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. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever."
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