Milo Yiannopoulos - May 31, 2016 The Jewish writer, journalist, activist and commentator Milo Yiannopoulos said the below: "Anti-Semitism is the same kind of bogus thing as crying racism and crying sexism. . . We do run everything. Fact's can't be racist. Jews are vastly overrepresented in banking. . . My mother is Jewish so according to Jewish law I'm Jewish. . . They know the jig is up. . . These people know; it's starting to dawn on them. They are starting to get the message that saying 'racist' is not going to shut people up anymore. It doesn't shut me up. Now you've got to come with facts." - Milo Yiannopoulos , University of California (UCLA), Dangerous Faggot Tour, May 31st 2016 * Source: UCLA, May 31, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos - May 31, 2016 The Jewish writer, journalist, activist and commentator Milo Yiannopoulos said the below: "Anti-Semitism is the same kind of bogus thing as crying racism and crying sexism. . . We do run everything. Fact's can't be racist. Jews are vastly overrepresented in banking. . . My mother is Jewish so according to Jewish law I'm Jewish. . . They know the jig is up. . . These people know; it's starting to dawn on them. They are starting to get the message that saying 'racist' is not going to shut people up anymore. It doesn't shut me up. Now you've got to come with facts." - Milo Yiannopoulos , University of California (UCLA), Dangerous Faggot Tour, May 31st 2016 * Source: UCLA, May 31, 2016
He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users.
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