Диалог Бурмистрова с корреспондентом КП: — Зачем вы пришли на митинг? — Чтобы проконтролировать работу по охране общественного порядка. — На чьей вы стороне, митингующих или правоохранительных органов? — Я на стороне полиции, — заявил Бурмистров.
Диалог Бурмистрова с корреспондентом КП: — Зачем вы пришли на митинг? — Чтобы проконтролировать работу по охране общественного порядка. — На чьей вы стороне, митингующих или правоохранительных органов? — Я на стороне полиции, — заявил Бурмистров.
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free 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. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. 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.
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