@simtzetzin It's all about the price. I flew from Penang to Kuching on 12th Sept with a transit in KLIA, and it cost almost RM1500. Meanwhile, 4 people in a car from KL to Hatyai would spend less than RM150 on petrol + toll. That's why! #TravelCosts#Comparisons
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a simplistic approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports. We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
You can see how #ETH continues to follow its 2016 and 2019 paths quite closely.
#ETH / #BTC breaking down was the warning signal.
This time is not different.
Risk management is the most important skill in Crypto.
If you don’t manage your risks, the market will manage it for you.
20 smart rules to lower your risks (and increase profits):
Elon Musk borrowed $13 billion from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and five other major banks to help finance its [Twitter] $44 billion acquisition.
I borrowed $54K from Wells Fargo, JPM Chase and six other major bank credit cards at 0% to help finance my bitcoin purchases.
Here's the 9 month update on how that's going below:
This is Shigeru Fujimoto.
An 87-year-old investor who has made over $12,000,000.
He is often referred to as "Japan's Buffett".
Here's his investing lessons:
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This man can predict the future.
He was an early investor in Uber, Twitter, and Notion.
And he just said "In 50 years, everyone will be working for themselves."
Naval Ravikant's 5 predictions on the future of wealth creation (and why you should care):
This is Steve Cohen.
He’s the owner of the New York Mets and America’s most profitable day trader with a net worth of $19.8B
He didn’t come from riches, and he definitely didn’t have anything handed to him.
Here’s his story:
Jim Carrey once said
"Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”
9 Things TO learn from
JIM CARREY - THE PHILOSOPHER
Jim Carrey once said
"Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”
9 Things TO learn from
JIM CARREY - THE PHILOSOPHER