We live in a capitalist society. You can do whatever you want as long as you have money or promise lots of money to powerful people.
The BBC contacted Telegram for comment about its refusal to join the child protection schemes and received a response after publication which has been included.
Where is it? I didn't find it anywhere in the article.
There are other places that try to explain this theory, I first learned it through a YT video (idk which)
is this a post apocalypse and they are living in human ruins?
This is patially explained by the Pixar Theory
It's not an understatement. "Multiple" means the quantity is between 2 and ∞.
This is reminding me of the fact that multiple men in VRChat use female avatars
The information they ask you is different per country. (You can check what's your country's required information here.) The information is handled by both the European Commission and by the organizers of this petition, and is given to the member states so they verify every signature (more info here).
I see some countries asking for a lot of info, so if don't want to trust the petition's organizers with personal info or think that the body that has been chosen to confirm your countries' signatures (you can check it here) could do something nefarious with the knowledge of who signed this petition, it's better to not sign it. Otherwise, I'd say go for it.
Are we sure this book isn't a shitpost?
I'm afraid this answer isn't 100% correct. There are ways to find out a file's type beyond looking at an extension. For example, there are lots of file formats where all of the files start with a specific sequence of bites, known as a file signature (or as "magic bytes" or "magic numbers").
You can try the
filecommand line tool to check that you can find out a file's format without resorting to its extension, and you can read the tool's manpage to learn how it works.