Topic excerpt: ▫️Strengthening democracy through transparency ▫️Eliminating democracy through pandemic and compulsory vaccination ▫️Financial market analysis and central bank monetary policy ▫️Escalatory spirals and "sustainable" energy policy ▫️Systematic Russophobia in Western Media and its Historical Roots ▫️Is it still possible to stop the dynamics of war? ▫️Strategy of military inability to attack. ▫️Dealing with Corona Measure Critics by the Legal System
Topic excerpt: ▫️Strengthening democracy through transparency ▫️Eliminating democracy through pandemic and compulsory vaccination ▫️Financial market analysis and central bank monetary policy ▫️Escalatory spirals and "sustainable" energy policy ▫️Systematic Russophobia in Western Media and its Historical Roots ▫️Is it still possible to stop the dynamics of war? ▫️Strategy of military inability to attack. ▫️Dealing with Corona Measure Critics by the Legal System
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. 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. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment.
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