"Something I haven't seen people talking about is how it's possible to have extremely strong emotions that don't come from any one single event, but from a bunch of events that, on their own, feel trivial. So, you feel like you're in a bad mood for 'no reason' because you can't think of any single inciting incident that feels proportionate to the intensity of the feelings you're experiencing. You're actually feeling the emotional strain of a thousand minor events stacked on top of each other. Your feelings are valid. You aren't feeling upset for 'no reason."
"Something I haven't seen people talking about is how it's possible to have extremely strong emotions that don't come from any one single event, but from a bunch of events that, on their own, feel trivial. So, you feel like you're in a bad mood for 'no reason' because you can't think of any single inciting incident that feels proportionate to the intensity of the feelings you're experiencing. You're actually feeling the emotional strain of a thousand minor events stacked on top of each other. Your feelings are valid. You aren't feeling upset for 'no reason."
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 Telegramβs user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash β worth more than a billion dollars β 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. However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, itβs taken as a given that itβll 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 βISISβ app of choice,β saying that the platformβs 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. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again β without hesitation." For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content.
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