As predicted, the EO is being legally challenged and will most likely be derailed by an injunction shortly. They will appeal up to the supreme court then in all likelihood citing United States v. Wong Kim Ark as precedent it will be punted back to congress who would need a two thirds vote to change the constitution. (next to impossible)
As predicted, the EO is being legally challenged and will most likely be derailed by an injunction shortly. They will appeal up to the supreme court then in all likelihood citing United States v. Wong Kim Ark as precedent it will be punted back to congress who would need a two thirds vote to change the constitution. (next to impossible)
But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world.
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