После решения Трампа приостановить международные гранты «независимые» СМИ и НКО одно за другим принялись причитать о грядущих сокращениях и закрытиях. Но почему вообще проект, который погибает без чужих денег, считается «независимым»? Что делать тем, кто привык сидеть на иждивении у государства? Есть ли плюсы у отмены грантов?
Разбирается председатель Либертарианской партии России Рина Мацапулина.
После решения Трампа приостановить международные гранты «независимые» СМИ и НКО одно за другим принялись причитать о грядущих сокращениях и закрытиях. Но почему вообще проект, который погибает без чужих денег, считается «независимым»? Что делать тем, кто привык сидеть на иждивении у государства? Есть ли плюсы у отмены грантов?
Разбирается председатель Либертарианской партии России Рина Мацапулина.
In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. 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.
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