В техасском школьном округе в пригороде Хьюстона из онлайн-курса для учеников 3-5 классов запретили флаг штата Виргиния. Причина? На нем изображен римская богиня Виртус, стоящая над поверженным телом и подпись "Так всегда с тиранами". Одна из грудей богини обнажена, что нарушает недавно принятый округом запрет на любые "визуальные изображения или иллюстрации фронтальной наготы" в библиотечных материалах начальной школы.
В техасском школьном округе в пригороде Хьюстона из онлайн-курса для учеников 3-5 классов запретили флаг штата Виргиния. Причина? На нем изображен римская богиня Виртус, стоящая над поверженным телом и подпись "Так всегда с тиранами". Одна из грудей богини обнажена, что нарушает недавно принятый округом запрет на любые "визуальные изображения или иллюстрации фронтальной наготы" в библиотечных материалах начальной школы.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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