"TPA" is the same as "Bot"
https://telegram.org/tos/bot-developers#6-2-4-rewards-for-stars
https://telegram.org/tos/bot-developers#6-2-4-rewards-for-stars
Important info in the new bot developer TOS about Stars ⭐:
> If your bot is found to be using alternative payment systems for digital goods and services, you may receive a notice to the Telegram account that owns your bot. Should you fail to comply with such notices, we may have to make your bot inaccessible from store versions of Telegram or terminate it from Bot Platform.
> All bots must be able to respond to the command
> Bot failure to rectify legitimate disputes, as shown by credible reports from users and ultimately at Telegram’s sole discretion, may lead to limitations or penalties being placed on your bot and your Telegram account. These include, but are not limited to, Stars being debited from your Star balance, permanent removal of your bot from Bot Platform or from store versions of Telegram, a public SCAM label displayed on your bot and the termination of your Telegram account.
> When used for Telegram Ads, each Star in your balance is worth 0.02 USD in advertising credit.
(Price for "customers" 👀 to buy stars is cheaper than 0.02 USD! Meaning this is the best way to advertise in Fragment)
> Developers can receive an equivalent of 0.013 USD worth of rewards for each Telegram Star.
(This means each star has a ~35% fee)
> Stars in your balance may not become available for advertising credits or rewards for up to 21 days after their receipt.
> Star-based advertising interfaces will become available in official Telegram apps by July 2024.
> Reward collection interfaces will become available in Fragment.com by July 2024. (Developers from the US who do not have access to Fragment may not be able to widrawn funds)
> Expiration: Stars earned by your bot are valid for 3 years from the date they were received. Should you fail to accept rewards or place Telegram advertisements with the Stars you accrued within their 3 year period of validity, they will be considered forfeit and debited from your balance.
https://telegram.org/tos/bot-developers
> If your bot is found to be using alternative payment systems for digital goods and services, you may receive a notice to the Telegram account that owns your bot. Should you fail to comply with such notices, we may have to make your bot inaccessible from store versions of Telegram or terminate it from Bot Platform.
> All bots must be able to respond to the command
/paysupport and process user requests regarding payment issues.> Bot failure to rectify legitimate disputes, as shown by credible reports from users and ultimately at Telegram’s sole discretion, may lead to limitations or penalties being placed on your bot and your Telegram account. These include, but are not limited to, Stars being debited from your Star balance, permanent removal of your bot from Bot Platform or from store versions of Telegram, a public SCAM label displayed on your bot and the termination of your Telegram account.
> When used for Telegram Ads, each Star in your balance is worth 0.02 USD in advertising credit.
(Price for "customers" 👀 to buy stars is cheaper than 0.02 USD! Meaning this is the best way to advertise in Fragment)
> Developers can receive an equivalent of 0.013 USD worth of rewards for each Telegram Star.
(This means each star has a ~35% fee)
> Stars in your balance may not become available for advertising credits or rewards for up to 21 days after their receipt.
> Star-based advertising interfaces will become available in official Telegram apps by July 2024.
> Reward collection interfaces will become available in Fragment.com by July 2024. (Developers from the US who do not have access to Fragment may not be able to widrawn funds)
> Expiration: Stars earned by your bot are valid for 3 years from the date they were received. Should you fail to accept rewards or place Telegram advertisements with the Stars you accrued within their 3 year period of validity, they will be considered forfeit and debited from your balance.
https://telegram.org/tos/bot-developers
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Telegram Bot Platform Developer Terms of Service
Bots and Mini Apps (collectively, “Third Party Apps” or “TPA”) are third party applications that integrate into Telegram…
⚠️ Telegram is lying to users claiming it has "nearly 0% commission" fee in stars
In the lastest Telegram blog post Telegram claimed that:
Also in a BotNews post Telegram claimed that:
The problem is: Telegram statement of "nearly 0% commission" fee is a lie.
🔷 In short terms:
- When user buy stars using PlayStore/AppStore Telegram apps, the PlayStore/AppStore charges a 30% commission and Telegram charges a ~5% commission fee.
- When user buy stars using Apk/Web/Desktop Telegram apps Telegram itself charges from ~17% up to 30% commission fee.
🔷 In long terms:
According to the developer TOS, Telegram pays developers 0.013 USD for each star (using the TON cryptocurrency, via the fragment.com platform).
As you can check here if an user buy ⭐️100 stars using the PlayStore/AppStore Telegram version:
- User pay: $1.99 (100%)
- Stores charges: $0.60 (~30%)
- Telegram charges: $0.09 (~5%)
- Seller receives: $1.30 (~65%)
If an user buy ⭐️100 stars using Telegram Apk/Web/Desktop all commission fees goes to Telegram:
- User pay: $1.69 (100%)
- Stores charges: $0.0 (0%)
- Telegram charges: $0.39 (~20%)
- Seller receives: $1.30 (~80%)
A commission fee that goes from 5% up to 30% is not a "nearly 0% commission" fee.
In the lastest Telegram blog post Telegram claimed that:
"Creators can use Stars to get cryptocurrency rewards in Toncoin, or use them to advertise their channel and get even more subscribers – all of this with next to 0 commission from Telegram."
Also in a BotNews post Telegram claimed that:
"Telegram takes nearly 0% commission and adds a 30% discount for ads to compensate for third-party payment system fees"
The problem is: Telegram statement of "nearly 0% commission" fee is a lie.
🔷 In short terms:
- When user buy stars using PlayStore/AppStore Telegram apps, the PlayStore/AppStore charges a 30% commission and Telegram charges a ~5% commission fee.
- When user buy stars using Apk/Web/Desktop Telegram apps Telegram itself charges from ~17% up to 30% commission fee.
🔷 In long terms:
According to the developer TOS, Telegram pays developers 0.013 USD for each star (using the TON cryptocurrency, via the fragment.com platform).
As you can check here if an user buy ⭐️100 stars using the PlayStore/AppStore Telegram version:
- User pay: $1.99 (100%)
- Stores charges: $0.60 (~30%)
- Telegram charges: $0.09 (~5%)
- Seller receives: $1.30 (~65%)
If an user buy ⭐️100 stars using Telegram Apk/Web/Desktop all commission fees goes to Telegram:
- User pay: $1.69 (100%)
- Stores charges: $0.0 (0%)
- Telegram charges: $0.39 (~20%)
- Seller receives: $1.30 (~80%)
A commission fee that goes from 5% up to 30% is not a "nearly 0% commission" fee.
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Pavel Durov
with virtually no commission from Telegram
Another lie. 🙃
Telegram commission fee goes from ~5% up to ~30%.
Telegram commission fee goes from ~5% up to ~30%.
And another lie in the blog post.
A comission that goes from 5% up to 30% is NOT a "next to zero" commission fee.
A comission that goes from 5% up to 30% is NOT a "next to zero" commission fee.
Official @wallet bot, @wallet_supportbot and wallet's X account sent scam messages to users today...
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Last night, few thousands users received a compromised message sent from Wallet’s official support channel. The message included a phishing link which was unauthorised by us. The cause of this vulnerability has been rectified, and no user funds were ever under threat. The perpetrators found a small vulnerability in our integration of a third-party service used by our support team which allowed them to send a limited number of messages. Our team promptly fixed the issue and revoked all external access.
The 10 or so users who responded to the compromised message will be compensated in full. We will conduct additional checks for our customer service third party software to make sure this does not happen again, and apologise for the inconvenience.
To reiterate, funds were always completely secure, and only our customer service plug-in was affected.
The 10 or so users who responded to the compromised message will be compensated in full. We will conduct additional checks for our customer service third party software to make sure this does not happen again, and apologise for the inconvenience.
To reiterate, funds were always completely secure, and only our customer service plug-in was affected.
Pavel Durov arrived from a trip in Azerbaijan and is under arrest in France.
The Justice considers that the absence of moderation, cooperation with the forces of law and order and the tools proposed by Telegram (disposable number, crypto, etc.) makes it complicit in drug trafficking, child criminal offences and fraud.
https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/info-tf1-lci-le-fondateur-et-pdg-de-la-messagerie-cryptee-telegram-interpelle-en-france-2316072.html
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All large social media apps are easy targets for criticism due to the content they host. I can’t recall any major social platform whose moderation has been consistently praised by traditional media.
The media coverage of Meta's moderation efforts has been…
The media coverage of Meta's moderation efforts has been…
The French prosecutor's office released a list of charges against Pavel Durov:
- Complicity in administering an online platform with the purpose of conducting illegal transactions by an organized group;
- Refusal to provide information or documents requested by authorized bodies necessary for the implementation and use of legally permitted wiretapping;
- Complicity in possessing pornographic images of minors;
- Complicity in distributing, offering, or providing to an organized criminal group, by agreement, pornographic images of minors;
- Complicity in the acquisition, transportation, storage, offering, or transfer of narcotic substances;
- Aiding in the offering, transfer, or provision of equipment, tools, programs, or data developed or adapted for attacks on automated data processing systems without legal justification;
- Complicity in fraud by an organized gang;
- Criminal conspiracy with the intent to commit a serious crime punishable by three years of imprisonment;
- Participation in crimes or offenses as part of an organized gang;
- Provision of cryptographic services that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control, aimed at ensuring confidentiality functions without appropriate declaration;
- Supply of cryptographic means that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control without prior declaration;
- Importation of a cryptographic device that does not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control without prior declaration.
Custody measures were extended on for 96 hours and may last until August 28, 2024.
- Complicity in administering an online platform with the purpose of conducting illegal transactions by an organized group;
- Refusal to provide information or documents requested by authorized bodies necessary for the implementation and use of legally permitted wiretapping;
- Complicity in possessing pornographic images of minors;
- Complicity in distributing, offering, or providing to an organized criminal group, by agreement, pornographic images of minors;
- Complicity in the acquisition, transportation, storage, offering, or transfer of narcotic substances;
- Aiding in the offering, transfer, or provision of equipment, tools, programs, or data developed or adapted for attacks on automated data processing systems without legal justification;
- Complicity in fraud by an organized gang;
- Criminal conspiracy with the intent to commit a serious crime punishable by three years of imprisonment;
- Participation in crimes or offenses as part of an organized gang;
- Provision of cryptographic services that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control, aimed at ensuring confidentiality functions without appropriate declaration;
- Supply of cryptographic means that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control without prior declaration;
- Importation of a cryptographic device that does not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control without prior declaration.
Custody measures were extended on for 96 hours and may last until August 28, 2024.
GabChannel
The French prosecutor's office released a list of charges against Pavel Durov: - Complicity in administering an online platform with the purpose of conducting illegal transactions by an organized group; - Refusal to provide information or documents requested…
*The person charged by 12 crimes is currently unknown (but it seems to be Durov). No formal charges have yet been filed against any identified individuals yet.
GabChannel
The French prosecutor's office released a list of charges against Pavel Durov: - Complicity in administering an online platform with the purpose of conducting illegal transactions by an organized group; - Refusal to provide information or documents requested…
Some channels are saying that this list of charges are against an "unnamed person" and not against Durov.
But this unnamed person seems to be Durov, because some of the charges could only be committed by someone who runs a communication platform.
Other indication that the charges are against Durov is the fact that the describe crime is "complicity" with a crime and not the crime itself.
But this unnamed person seems to be Durov, because some of the charges could only be committed by someone who runs a communication platform.
For example:
- Complicity in administering an online platform with the purpose of conducting illegal transactions by an organized group;
- Refusal to provide information or documents requested by authorities necessary for the implementation and use of legally permitted wiretapping;
- Provision of cryptographic services that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control, aimed at ensuring confidentiality functions without appropriate declaration;
- Supply of cryptographic means that do not solely ensure the functions of authentication or integrity control without prior declaration;
Other indication that the charges are against Durov is the fact that the describe crime is "complicity" with a crime and not the crime itself.
Durov is also subject to a criminal complaint in Switzerland
The Telegram founder is facing a lawsuit in Switzerland from Irina Bolgar filed in March 2023, who claims he is the father of her three children.
She also claim he used force against his youngest son 5 times between 2021|2022, stopped seeing their children in September 2022 and “blocked” access to the 150,000-euro child support payments around the same time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2024/08/28/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-criminal-complaint-switzerland/
The Telegram founder is facing a lawsuit in Switzerland from Irina Bolgar filed in March 2023, who claims he is the father of her three children.
She also claim he used force against his youngest son 5 times between 2021|2022, stopped seeing their children in September 2022 and “blocked” access to the 150,000-euro child support payments around the same time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2024/08/28/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-criminal-complaint-switzerland/
French Tribunal determined that Pavel Durov:
- Is prohibited to leave the French territory
- Provide a deposit of 5 million euros
- Report to the police station twice a week
He also was indicted for 6 offenses:
• Conspiracy to manage an online platform used for illegal transactions as part of an organized group;
• Refusal to provide information or documents requested by authorized bodies necessary for lawful wiretapping;
• Complicity in crimes by allowing Telegram access to users involved in distributing child pornography, trafficking drugs, fraud, and other criminal activities;
• Money laundering resulting from crimes or offenses as part of an organized group;
• Providing cryptographic services without proper declaration;
• Importing cryptographic tools to ensure confidentiality without prior declaration.
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Durov is prohibited from leaving France.
What do you think he should do?
What do you think he should do?
Anonymous Poll
49%
Stay in France 🇫🇷 and try to prove innocence
46%
Escape to the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 as refugee and seek political asylum
5%
Other (say in comments 💬 )
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The Manila Times
Musk's X blocked in Brazil
BRASILIA — A block on Elon Musk's X.com in Brazil started to take effect early on Saturday after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The judge also ordered:
- account blocking from influencer, elected senators and others users for political reasons,
- arrest of brazilian's X employees if the company from USA did not block those accounts,
- blocking of SpaceX bank accounts to pay for X (Twitter) fines,
- blocking of VPNs in the country,
- R$ 50,000 fine for each Brazilian using VPN to access X.
All this in a secret investigation with illegal bases that has been going without public legal process for almost 2,000 days.
https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/09/01/world/americas-emea/musks-x-blocked-in-brazil/1968131
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Why is this ilegal:
1) In Brazil, the object an investigation must not be undefined, it must indicating the specific fact to be investigated. "All fake news against court" is not a specific fact for an investigation.
2) The appointment of Alexandre de Moraes as responsible minister was not random and violates the requirement of distribution. - Art. 66, Internal Regulations of the STF: “The distribution will be made by lottery or prevention, through a computerized system, activated automatically, in each class of process.”
3) The STF has no jurisdiction over the case. The federal police and the first instance federal court are the ones responsible for investigating fake news on the internet. The article 43 of the Internal Regulations of the STF is only related to crimes that happened inside STF's building and not on the Internet .
4) The opening of an investigation by Judiciary itself violates the accusatory system adopted by the Brazilian Constitution. - Art. 129, I "exclusive responsibility of the Public Prosecutor's Office to promote public criminal action".
5) The investigation violates freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is not an absolute right in Brazil. But STF is treating "criticisms against the judges" as if they were "fake news" and "crimes against the democratic rule of law".
(Source)
#VotoDemocráticoAuditável. (Source)Why is this ilegal: Under Brazil's legal system, breach of personal data confidentiality cannot happen against countless individuals. Judge must describe for each post which individuals (or accounts) will have their data breached.
(Source)
Why is this ilegal:
In Brazil, the judge cannot include an someone as investigated it it's own case, Public Prosecutor's Office is the one who should do it. Brazilian Constitution of 1988, art. 129, I: "exclusive responsibility of the Public Prosecutor's Office to promote public criminal action". (Source)
Also, Moraes did not specified which was the conduct Elon Musk is being investigated of. Although Moraes added Musk as investigated itself, he determined that Federal Police (PF) is the one who should inform which crimes he committed. (Source)
Why is this ilegal:
One person could not be criminally responsible for another person's "crime". Art. 5º XLV of Constitution: The law may not extend beyond the person of the convicted person. (Source)
After the threat of arrest, the lawyer and legal representative of X in Brasil resigned to avoid being arrested. (Source)
X considered this order "political persecution" against the Brazilian senator and did not proceeded the blocking.
Why is this ilegal:
One person could not be criminally responsible for another person's "crime". Art. 5º XLV of Constitution: The law may not extend beyond the person of the convicted person. (Source)
Why is this illegal: In Brazil, foreign citizens must receive judicial notifications through rogatory letters, and not by electronic means. X's suspension is ilegal because notification via Twitter is considered null. (Source)
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Why is this illegal:
SpaceX and X are different companies from different economic groups with different owners. Elon Musk itself only owns 40% of SpaceX. SpaceX is receiving the punishments of another different company. (Source)
It is also ilegal to issue an order in secret without giving the company right to speak, called in Brazil "adversarial principle". (Source)
Why is this illegal:
Only the law can create obligations for all inhabitants of the country. The application of a fine or any sanction by a judge may only occur after ensuring the contradictory and full defense – never in a prior and summary manner. (Source)
Also, VPN companies could not be blocked without being even notified to express themselves in court, called in Brazil "adversarial principle". (Source)
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