Но наш разум предпочитает не доходить до такой крайности, раз и навсегда с горделивой скромностью возвестить, что он может познавать только относительное, а абсолютное — не в его компетенции. Это предуведомление позволяет ему без стеснения применять свой привычный метод мышления, и с оговоркой, что он не касается абсолютного, он авторитетно высказывается абсолютно обо всем.
Но наш разум предпочитает не доходить до такой крайности, раз и навсегда с горделивой скромностью возвестить, что он может познавать только относительное, а абсолютное — не в его компетенции. Это предуведомление позволяет ему без стеснения применять свой привычный метод мышления, и с оговоркой, что он не касается абсолютного, он авторитетно высказывается абсолютно обо всем.
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. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war.
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