Пока весь мир напряжённо следит за выборами в США, достаточно занимательные новости приходят из другой части света: в Катарепроводился проводился референдум [с вопросом: надо или не надо проводить парламентские выборы]. И по итогам этого референдума 91% избирателей проголосовали за отмену выборов.
В этом ракурсе демократия выглядит как дракон, пожирающий собственный хвост.
Пока весь мир напряжённо следит за выборами в США, достаточно занимательные новости приходят из другой части света: в Катарепроводился проводился референдум [с вопросом: надо или не надо проводить парламентские выборы]. И по итогам этого референдума 91% избирателей проголосовали за отмену выборов.
В этом ракурсе демократия выглядит как дракон, пожирающий собственный хвост.
Sebi said data, emails and other documents are being retrieved from the seized devices and detailed investigation is in progress. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. 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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