✈️👨🏻⚖️ Corona als Vorwand: Fluglinie feuert 1.800 Mitarbeiter – und wird jetzt zur Kasse gebeten
Manchmal – wenn auch selten – werden die Verantwortlichen der Corona-Zeit zur Rechenschaft gezogen. Nun traf es die australische Fluglinie Qantas. Ein Gericht verurteilte das Unternehmen zu einer Strafe von umgerechnet 50 Millionen Euro. Der Grund: 1.800 Entlassungen während der sogenannten Pandemie. Quantas nutzte die Reisebeschränkungen und den damit verbundenen Umsatzrückgang gezielt aus – um reguläres Personal durch externe Dienstleister zu ersetzen.
✈️👨🏻⚖️ Corona als Vorwand: Fluglinie feuert 1.800 Mitarbeiter – und wird jetzt zur Kasse gebeten
Manchmal – wenn auch selten – werden die Verantwortlichen der Corona-Zeit zur Rechenschaft gezogen. Nun traf es die australische Fluglinie Qantas. Ein Gericht verurteilte das Unternehmen zu einer Strafe von umgerechnet 50 Millionen Euro. Der Grund: 1.800 Entlassungen während der sogenannten Pandemie. Quantas nutzte die Reisebeschränkungen und den damit verbundenen Umsatzrückgang gezielt aus – um reguläres Personal durch externe Dienstleister zu ersetzen.
Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." 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. What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders.
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