Vor 35 Jahren fiel die Mauer – ein Symbol für die Unterdrückung durch die SED-Diktatur. Unsere Heimat war damals nicht nur durch den Eisernen Vorhang gespalten. Es ging der SED-Diktatur und ihren opportunistischen Helfern auch darum, kritische Geister auszusortieren: Sie wurden schon damals als "staatsfeindliche Hetzer," "Faschisten," "Spinner" oder "Asoziale" erklärt. 40 Jahre funktionierte das. Doch dann erkämpften sich Millionen DDR-Bürger ihre Freiheit und überwanden die Spaltung.
Vor 35 Jahren fiel die Mauer – ein Symbol für die Unterdrückung durch die SED-Diktatur. Unsere Heimat war damals nicht nur durch den Eisernen Vorhang gespalten. Es ging der SED-Diktatur und ihren opportunistischen Helfern auch darum, kritische Geister auszusortieren: Sie wurden schon damals als "staatsfeindliche Hetzer," "Faschisten," "Spinner" oder "Asoziale" erklärt. 40 Jahre funktionierte das. Doch dann erkämpften sich Millionen DDR-Bürger ihre Freiheit und überwanden die Spaltung.
There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%. 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. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change.
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