🧭 Сегодня узнать свое местоположение с точностью до пары метров исключительно просто: достаточно достать смартфон и открыть приложение, которое получит координаты со спутника GPS или ГЛОНАСС. Однако как и с помощью каких инструментов и технологий люди ориентировались в пространстве и путешествовали даже не тысячи, а всего лишь сотни лет назад?
🧭 Сегодня узнать свое местоположение с точностью до пары метров исключительно просто: достаточно достать смартфон и открыть приложение, которое получит координаты со спутника GPS или ГЛОНАСС. Однако как и с помощью каких инструментов и технологий люди ориентировались в пространстве и путешествовали даже не тысячи, а всего лишь сотни лет назад?
In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. 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. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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