Something that's always plagued me about every unkind act I've ever experienced or witnessed is how the perpetrators manage to live with themselves. To this day, I regret and feel shame for various things I've done throughout my life. But, nowadays, I feel not only that we've very few empathetic and emotionally intelligent individuals in existence, but that the few to exist are now especially burdened by the ever-growing concern and confusion of having to harbour the additional, cognitive weight of those who'll never carry it themselves.
Something that's always plagued me about every unkind act I've ever experienced or witnessed is how the perpetrators manage to live with themselves. To this day, I regret and feel shame for various things I've done throughout my life. But, nowadays, I feel not only that we've very few empathetic and emotionally intelligent individuals in existence, but that the few to exist are now especially burdened by the ever-growing concern and confusion of having to harbour the additional, cognitive weight of those who'll never carry it themselves.
On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. 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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