Сезон праздников, а-ах. Гирлянды, шары и подарки - это неплохая попытка забыть о том, что утром темно, вечером тоже темно, а авитаминоз подкрадывается на мягких лапках и кусает за ass. Однако же, не будем унывать: сегодня - день зимнего солнцестояния! Начиная с воскресенья, дни будут становиться чуточку длиннее; а пока давайте-ка распахнём глаза пошире и хорошенько впитаем в себя декабрьскую темноту, а то чё как эти.
Лежали на спине в снегу, раскидав руки и ноги, на сей раз:
Сезон праздников, а-ах. Гирлянды, шары и подарки - это неплохая попытка забыть о том, что утром темно, вечером тоже темно, а авитаминоз подкрадывается на мягких лапках и кусает за ass. Однако же, не будем унывать: сегодня - день зимнего солнцестояния! Начиная с воскресенья, дни будут становиться чуточку длиннее; а пока давайте-ка распахнём глаза пошире и хорошенько впитаем в себя декабрьскую темноту, а то чё как эти.
Лежали на спине в снегу, раскидав руки и ноги, на сей раз:
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. 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. 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.
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