Уэльс атакован штормом «Берт»: «Дожди, мокрый снег и шквалистый ветер – все сразу обрушилось на большую часть Уэльса. Реки вышли из берегов, три человека погибли, тысячи домов обесточены, транспортное сообщение нарушено. Местные власти уже назвали ситуацию беспрецедентной, жители сражаются со стихией, как могут — черпая воду ведрами и тазами с тротуаров».
Уэльс атакован штормом «Берт»: «Дожди, мокрый снег и шквалистый ветер – все сразу обрушилось на большую часть Уэльса. Реки вышли из берегов, три человека погибли, тысячи домов обесточены, транспортное сообщение нарушено. Местные власти уже назвали ситуацию беспрецедентной, жители сражаются со стихией, как могут — черпая воду ведрами и тазами с тротуаров».
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. 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 original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." 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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