Про Ребекку Куанг говорят давно и много, но у меня возникло желание почитать ее книги, лишь когда я прочитала про Yellowface. Сюжет попахивает “Правдой о деле Гарри Квеберта”, “Шелкопрядом” и немножко “Исчезнувшей”: жили-были две подружки-писательницы, звезда Афина и неудачница Джун. Звезда подавилась блинчиком и умерла, а неудачница украла ее рукопись и стала звездой. Что могло пойти не так?
Про Ребекку Куанг говорят давно и много, но у меня возникло желание почитать ее книги, лишь когда я прочитала про Yellowface. Сюжет попахивает “Правдой о деле Гарри Квеберта”, “Шелкопрядом” и немножко “Исчезнувшей”: жили-были две подружки-писательницы, звезда Афина и неудачница Джун. Звезда подавилась блинчиком и умерла, а неудачница украла ее рукопись и стала звездой. Что могло пойти не так?
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. 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. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea.
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