The first are tourists. They go for glamorous, yet soulless Insta experience of a glass-shielded high rise and a martini. This is a territory marking contemporary habit enabled by social platforms to keep home-staying crowd envious and excited.
Travelers dive into the raw, smelly, colorful, explosive, and authentically delicious diversity of street food prepared under the open air of a night market. Dishes are unceremoniously served on primitive plates as soon as they leave open flames. Cheap plastic stools are the butt-supporting method of choice. It's a place where locals and foreigners intermingle in a cacophony of sounds and languages, surrounded by shady buildings, dirty alleys, massage parlors, and occasional night entrepreneurs of the oldest profession.
The first are tourists. They go for glamorous, yet soulless Insta experience of a glass-shielded high rise and a martini. This is a territory marking contemporary habit enabled by social platforms to keep home-staying crowd envious and excited.
Travelers dive into the raw, smelly, colorful, explosive, and authentically delicious diversity of street food prepared under the open air of a night market. Dishes are unceremoniously served on primitive plates as soon as they leave open flames. Cheap plastic stools are the butt-supporting method of choice. It's a place where locals and foreigners intermingle in a cacophony of sounds and languages, surrounded by shady buildings, dirty alleys, massage parlors, and occasional night entrepreneurs of the oldest profession.
Update March 8, 2022: EFF has clarified that Channels and Groups are not fully encrypted, end-to-end, updated our post to link to Telegram’s FAQ for Cloud and Secret chats, updated to clarify that auto-delete is available for group and channel admins, and added some additional links. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram.
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