#vkontakte

[epithalamia]

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[maevevampi]

I'm drawing something related to Undertale! ♥ What do you think it is?

[taekookieeeeflufff]

I be loving you right...

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jennifer Rankin at The Guardian:

French judicial authorities on Sunday extended the detention of the Russian-born founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, after his arrest at a Paris airport over alleged offences related to the messaging app. His arrest at the Le Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday was the latest extraordinary twist in the career of one of the world’s most influential tech icons. The detention of Durov, 39, was extended beyond Sunday night by the investigating magistrate who is handling the case, according to a source close to the investigation. This initial period of detention for questioning can last up to a maximum of 96 hours. When this phase of detention ends, the judge can decide to free him or press charges and remand in further custody. French investigators had issued a warrant for Durov’s arrest as part of an inquiry into allegations of fraud, drug trafficking, organised crime, promotion of terrorism and cyberbullying.

Durov is accused of failing to take action to curb the criminal use of his platform and was stopped after arriving in Paris from Baku on his private jet on Saturday night. “Enough of Telegram’s impunity,” said one investigator who expressed surprise that Durov flew to Paris knowing he was a wanted man. In a statement on Sunday evening, Telegram said: “Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act – its moderation is within industry standards and constantly improving.

[...] Durov lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and holds citizenship of France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He recently said he had tried to settle in Berlin, London, Singapore and San Francisco before choosing Dubai, which he praised for its business environment and “neutrality”. In the UAE, Telegram faces little pressure to moderate its content, while western governments are trying to crack down on hate speech, disinformation, sharing of images of child abuse and other illegal content.

Telegram offers end-to-end encrypted messaging and allows users to create channels to disseminate information to followers. Especially popular in the former Soviet Union, the app is widely used by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and his circle, as well as politicians throughout Ukraine, to release information about the war. It is also one of the few places where Russians can get unfiltered information about the conflict, after the Kremlin tightened media controls in the wake of the full-scale invasion. Its apparently unbreakable encryption has made Telegram a haven for extremists and conspiracy theorists. Investigative journalists at the central European news site VSquare said it had become the “‘go-to’ tool for Russian propagandists, both leftwing and rightwing radicals, American QAnon and conspiracy theorists,” concluding it was an “ecosystem for the radicalisation of opinion”. The app was also used widely by far-right agitators plotting anti-immigration rallies in England and Northern Ireland in the wake of the stabbing of three children at a Southport dance class last month. The anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate concluded that Telegram had become the “app of choice” for racists and violent extremists and “a cesspit of antisemitic content” with minimal moderation or effort from the app to curb extremist content.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France over the weekend based on an inquiry into allegations of fraud, drug trafficking, organised crime, promotion of terrorism and cyberbullying, and child sex abuse material (aka child pornography) on the social media app.

Telegram is popular in Russia and most of the former Soviet countries, and in the west, a hub for far-right conspiracy theorists.

The arrest of Durov has ZERO to do with “free speech”, despite right-wing spin claiming otherwise.

See Also:

The Guardian: What is Telegram and why has its founder Pavel Durov been arrested?

CNN: A Russian Elon Musk with 100 biological children: Meet Pavel Durov

NBC News: Telegram founder Durov's arrest is part of a larger investigation into alleged 'complicity' in child exploitation and drug trafficking

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Thank you for sacrificing your data to VKontakte so we can see more obscure and apocryphal TES art brought to light (no Hermaeus Mora pun intended)!

My Khazakstani and Ukrainian friends are ironically the reason I even had an account on there to begin with lol

Godspeed 🫡🇰🇿🇺🇦

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[venelona]

I made an art group Vkontakte where I'm going to post all of my art one picture a day in a slow torture for all you three russian people who follow me

But yes come follow me (and send me friend requests or my lonely page is very suspicious)

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Я сделала паблик Вконтакте, куда я буду выкладывать все свои рисунки по одному в день. Если вам нравится такая пытка, добро пожаловать

Если не нравится группа то хотя бы в друзья реквест закиньте, а то я совсем одинокая xD

[tufnation]

We are in the VKONTAKTE social network! We are waiting for everyone! By the way, the content is different =) Мы в социальной сети ВКОНТАКТЕ! Контент кстати, разный=)

[necro-acid]

also, other stickers that I made for now

that's it, thanks for looking at them

[epithalamia]

[ragneda-r]

Today I read about an MGU student who was fined for 500 000 rubles for some pro LGBT pictures in her saved files in the russian social network "VKontakte".

There were three pictures: two of lesbian couples and one picture of a cat with a rainbow flag in his mouth.

I think it's better to delete my VK profile.

Too bad it has all my old art and I need time to download it.

[ilya1art]

Doomer kittens

P.S.: sorry for leaving tumblr for some time - just hard working

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[mwaudiovisual]

CatTober '24 Day 18:

VK catgirl Masyunya tries Pilk for the first time (after being recommended by Neco Arc)

[ulichzae5al]

hellоооo, this is a spoiler for the art in UnicornWarsZine in VK! if you are interested then all the information about zine — https://vk.com/unicornwars_zine (mmm true, everything is in Russian here оккк)

oh dismember me with a circular