Завтра был майдан 21 ноября исполнится одиннадцать лет началу конца украинской государственности. Мало кто тогда мог себе представить во что выльется очередная "цветная революция", организованная Западом в очередной постсоветской республике на границе с Россией.
Как, впрочем, мало кто сегодня, за десять дней до наступления календарной зимы, может представить, что ещё немного и на Киев опустится другая зима. Ядерная. Не дай Бог, конечно.
Завтра был майдан 21 ноября исполнится одиннадцать лет началу конца украинской государственности. Мало кто тогда мог себе представить во что выльется очередная "цветная революция", организованная Западом в очередной постсоветской республике на границе с Россией.
Как, впрочем, мало кто сегодня, за десять дней до наступления календарной зимы, может представить, что ещё немного и на Киев опустится другая зима. Ядерная. Не дай Бог, конечно.
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. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. 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. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government.
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