Has…..has this guy had sex with a woman, like ever?
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He has reproduced. The implications of these 2 data points are pretty fuckin sad.
At the risk of being an asshole, citation needed I think.
Your skepticism is both healthy and warranted, but I'm too lazy to dig up the citation. Still, yes, he has conceived a child without ever bringing his wife to orgasm.
There's a subset of men who earnestly believe that women are selfish if they think about anything but bringing the man to orgasm during sex. After all, that's what God put them on this green earth for.
DNA test or it didn't happen.
To be clear, all of that is just silly memes. He made a joke that his doctor wife told him that if you need a bucket and mop to clean up your vagina, it's probably an infection. The internet interpreted that throw away joke as "I've never pleased my wife", and everything about Ben Shapiro talking about female orgasms since then, to my knowledge, has been parody.
Not actually real tho . I like how he is jumping on that demonic Grammy bandwagon, as tame as that was. Someone show him one of Sabbath or Alice Cooper's old shows. Relive the classics and ride that outrage gravy train for a bit again.
EDIT: lol, he spent over an hour talking about that saturday morning cartoon shebang.
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Attacks on power grids plunged thousands of Americans into darkness, as authorities worry neo-Nazis are targeting critical infrastructure
Power grids from California to North Carolina have come under attack, concerning authorities that extremists are targeting critical US infrastructure.
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On the evening of December 3, the lights went out in Moore County.
For tens of thousands of central North Carolina residents among the Piedmont hills west of Fayetteville, electric heaters became useless against the cold, the internet went dead, and refrigerator fans spun to a halt. Traffic lights went dark at intersections, and cellphone batteries began to dwindle. Local authorities declared a state of emergency and, fearful over the prospect of unrest, enforced a curfew.
The outage was no accident: Attackers had rained gunfire on two electrical substations, the facilities that regulate and distribute electricity across the power grid, and knocked them out of operation. Law enforcement estimated millions of dollars in damages, and it took days for repair crews from Duke Energy working around the clock to finally bring everything back online. A federal investigation is underway.
As dramatic and costly as the Moore County power outage was, it wasn't an anomaly. An Insider investigation has found that attacks against the electrical grid nationwide are at an all-time high — and experts say the greatest threat comes from right-wing extremists seeking to sow chaos and accelerate the devolution of the social order. The investigation, which includes an analysis of newly released Department of Energy data, visits to substations, a review of law-enforcement records from nine jurisdictions, as well as neo-Nazi propaganda, and interviews with six power industry and extremism experts, found that attacks on the grid spiked dramatically last year, with a 72% increase over 2021.
According to Department of Energy statistics, human attacks were responsible for 171 "electric disturbance incidents" around the country in 2022, compared with 99 in 2021. (Insider's review of the data counted incidents that the Department of Energy labeled as the result of vandalism, sabotage, actual physical attack, cyber event, and suspicious activity.)
The motivation for attacks on substations can vary wildly and usually remains unknown, as most perpetrators are never caught. But law-enforcement officials and researchers who study extremism say far-right zealots are increasingly intent on targeting the grid under the banner of neo-Nazi "accelerationism," or the theory that chaos and destabilizing violence will help bring about a race war. And despite the rapidly growing threat, experts say, efforts to secure the grid against attack are lagging, leaving huge swaths of our electrical infrastructure vulnerable to attack from a white supremacist movement looking to take advantage.
In the past year, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly warned of threats to critical infrastructure posed by "lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs." There are "continued calls for violence directed at US critical infrastructure," the agency warned in February of last year, "as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals."
Though many disturbances at substations may be the result of petty vandalism or attempted burglaries, authorities are concerned about a more concerted targeting of critical infrastructure. Law-enforcement officials in Washington state warned utilities last year that white supremacists were plotting to take down the power grid, according to a December summary of two interagency task-force memos that Insider obtained through a records request.
Groups targeting electrical infrastructure "are connected with accelerationism," an emergency-management director at the state's Department of Commerce wrote, "and their goals are to increase social disruption, violence, and gain support for the superiority of the white race."
Attacks on a vulnerable critical infrastructure
The Moore County attack, the biggest of its kind last year, led to scrutiny of what law enforcement and power companies were doing to prevent similar attempts to take down the grid. A raft of disturbances in the Pacific Northwest that caused millions in damages further highlighted how substations appear to be a soft target.
In spite of years of warnings from the security community about the vulnerabilities of electric infrastructure to attack, the reality is that much of it remains relatively unsecured. Some substations don't even have video surveillance.
Two workers repairing one of the Moore County substations that were attacked in December. Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The vast majority of attacks and vandalism on power stations in 2022, including the high-profile attacks in North Carolina, remain unsolved, according to an Insider analysis of the Department of Energy's database of such incidents and police records. Attackers are often able to cause damage and then flee well before utilities call law enforcement to the scene, according to police records from nine attacks obtained by Insider.
Insider visited four Pacific Northwest substations that have been attacked in the past three months. At each, there was a noticeable lack of security: Only one was patrolled by a guard. An Insider reporter walked around the perimeter of the others for 10 minutes each. At one substation, the hole attackers had cut into the fence nearly three weeks before had been repaired with plastic zip ties.
One substation that was attacked on November 28, just outside Portland, Oregon, neighbors a sheriff's station.
Virtually under the nose of the police, someone cut a hole in the substation fence, entered the control room, and slashed power to a wide swath of the suburbs east of Portland — including offices of the utility company and law enforcement, 911 audio shows.
"We have a huge power outage," the 911 dispatcher who took the call about the attack told a utility employee. "We're tired of this."
It's no wonder the dispatcher was tired: Just four days earlier, in the same county, two people had "used firearms to shoot up and disable numerous pieces of equipment and cause significant damage" at another substation, according to an internal memo from the utility obtained by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW. The police took four hours to respond to the 911 call for that attack, according to records obtained by Insider.
Two hours after initially phoning the attack in, an employee for the utilities company again called law enforcement to ask when officers would be on the scene.
"This is critical infrastructure," they reminded the dispatcher, sounding exasperated.
An FBI representative declined to confirm the existence of an investigation into the two attacks near Portland, but the sheriff's office said it was cooperating with a federal investigation. No one has been arrested.
At four substations in Washington state's Pierce County, attackers broke into substations on Christmas Day and tampered with equipment, leading to arcs that cut power to 14,000 customers and caused approximately $3 million in damage.
It wasn't difficult for attackers to breach those substations, which are on suburban streets and protected only by a fence, with a pair of bolt cutters. Nor was there much surveillance. Two had signs advising that the station was being surveilled, but the police didn't take any footage into evidence, according to records obtained by Insider. At one of the stations, a camera was pointing directly at the electric panel, but it wasn't active, according to a police report.
The camera "used outdated 3G cell signal" and "no longer worked," utility employees told an officer.
Two suspects in those attacks were later charged based on an FBI analysis of cellphone records that found two devices were in the vicinity of each of the four substations when the attacks occurred, according to a charging document. After his arrest, one of the suspects told officers that they had cut power to rob a local business. He was later released from custody on orders to enter a substance-abuse program.
But most of the attacks in the past year remain unsolved, leaving a lack of data for researchers to determine the motivations behind them. Local law enforcement may also miss the signs an incident is ideologically motivated, some extremism experts worry, and not flag attacks to federal investigators.
"There is a dearth of knowledge within local and regional law enforcement to understand the early warning signs of more advanced terroristic threats," said Matt Kriner, a far-right researcher and managing director of the Accelerationist Research Consortium.
In Lewis County, Washington, 7,500 customers were knocked offline in June after an attacker caused a power arc at a substation located next to the utility's offices. Surveillance footage captured from a building next door shows a white pickup truck drive by, then a flash of the power arc. The police found a crowbar on the scene that someone had apparently used to break a lock on the fence, according to investigation files obtained by Insider. No arrests have been made, an FBI representative confirmed.
In Kern County, in southern California, someone fired a gun into a PG&E substation last July, leaving 1,100 customers without power and causing $3 million to $5 million in damage to the station, according to a representative for the utility and police documents obtained by Insider.
The police still have no suspects in the case, a representative for the sheriff's department said. "There have been no eyewitnesses to come forward," the person added, "if there are any."
Law enforcement and utility companies, though, say they're working to resolve the open cases and prevent further attacks. In an emailed statement, an FBI representative said the agency "remains vigilant" but had "not determined that a single individual or group is responsible or that incidents in different cities are linked."
"We're not sitting on our hands on this," said Brendan Armstrong, a security specialist at Seattle City Light. "We've all increased our security posture."
Extremists target the power grid
Extremist groups have targeted critical infrastructure for decades. In the 1970s, the anti-capitalist New World Liberation Front carried out more than 20 bombings on California's energy facilities. After 9/11 there was a surge in concern over Islamic extremist plots to target power, water, and transportation infrastructure. Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber, explicitly called for targeting the energy sector in one of his essays. White supremacist propagandists have done the same, viewing it as the most effective way to cause chaos.
Conspiracy theorists and extremist movements abroad have also found critical infrastructure an appealing target. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wave of arson attacks across Britain targeted cellphone towers based on the falsehood that 5G technology was somehow spreading the coronavirus.
But despite the long-standing relationship between a variety of extremist movements and critical infrastructure, four extremism researchers who spoke with Insider all agreed that the far-right had become the dominant player in targeting the grid. A study released last year by George Washington University's Program on Extremism found that as Salafi-jihadist plots from Islamic State supporters began to wane in about 2017, neo-Nazi attempts on infrastructure grew.
Researchers, law enforcement, and security experts say US neo-Nazi groups pose a growing threat to electrical infrastructure. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
"We saw a huge spike in white supremacist cases starting targeting critical infrastructure between 2020 and 2022," Ilana Krill, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism who was one of the study's authors, told Insider. "A disproportionate amount of these cases focused on the energy sector and substations."
The targeting of critical infrastructure has also coincided with a resurgence in one subset of the white supremacist movement: neo-Nazi accelerationists, a largely decentralized community of people who believe that through violent attacks such as bombings and shootings they can collapse society as we know it and build a white ethnostate in its place.
Multiple countries have designated accelerationist groups, such as the now-largely-defunct Atomwaffen and The Base, as international terrorist organizations. The ideology has inspired mass killings such as the 2019 Christchurch attack in New Zealand, which killed 51 people at two mosques, and is linked to several murders and mass shootings in the US.
A joint investigation last year from Insider, Welt Am Sonntag, and Politico that reviewed nearly 100,000 messages from encrypted neo-Nazi chat groups found accelerationists from across North America and Europe sharing information on bomb-making materials and discussing carrying out terrorist attacks.
Members of accelerationist groups have been charged with several plots in recent years to attack critical infrastructure. Brandon Clint Russell, a founder of Atomwaffen who kept a framed picture of the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on his dresser, was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison for possession of dangerous explosives after discussing attacks on the energy sector. Five men, including three US Marine veterans, were indicted in North Carolina in 2021 and accused of plotting to use homemade thermite bombs to blow up the power grid. Three men from Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to blow up electrical facilities in an attempt to further their neo-Nazi beliefs and instigate a race war.
"The critical-infrastructure element has become one of the core components of neo-fascist accelerationist movements in the US. It's become one of the targets du jour," said Jon Lewis, a researcher at the Program on Extremism who studies accelerationism.
In July, a 250-page online magazine began circulating through neo-Nazi channels on the messaging app Telegram. It was a work of accelerationist propaganda that looked like a mix between the glossy publications that ISIS distributed at the height of its insurgency, but filtered through the aesthetics of "Call Of Duty" and 4chan. Numerous sections, which Insider reviewed, contained calls for attacking critical infrastructure and instructional guides for how to knock out the power grid — claiming that "during a long-term outage, the masses will crumple and eat one another."
Even when it doesn't appear that white supremacists are behind certain outages, such as the botched burglary in Pierce County, accelerationist groups celebrate and sometimes take credit for attacks. Part of the movement's goal is to push the idea of targeting critical infrastructure further into the mainstream discourse, hoping to inspire lone actors to attack the grid.
"They don't really care who is doing the violence, who's doing the critical-infrastructure attacks," Lewis said. "They just want to be the spark that starts on fire."
The electric-industry response
Recent attacks in Washington, Oregon, and North Carolina aren't the first to raise hackles in the electric industry. A 2013 gun attack on a substation in Metcalf, near San Jose, was a major call to action.
In that case, saboteurs cut a fiber-optic cable to try to knock out communications and spent about 20 minutes shooting transformers from a short distance away in the middle of the night. Thousands of gallons of cooling oil leaked, causing the transformers to overheat, but no one ended up losing electricity.
The perpetrators left no fingerprints and were never caught, despite a $250,000 reward. Their professionalism put a chill into regulators like Jon Wellinghoff, who led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time. His team directed NERC, a self-regulatory group, to come up with reliability standards for critical substations — and looking back, he wishes it went further.
The standards didn't instruct utilities to follow a point-by-point checklist and instead simply stated they had to conduct risk assessments and come up with plans to protect their critical facilities, Wellinghoff said. The result was that relatively few substations received security improvements.
"A utility may have 100 substations in its territory and decide only two of them are critical," Wellinghoff said.
As a result, the overwhelming majority of America's more than 40,000 substations are like the ones Insider visited in Oregon: largely unguarded, barely surveilled, and protected by little more than a chain-link fence. That's partly because most of them can be taken offline without posing a risk to the broader system.
"Putting in a somewhat simplistic camera system and two-way voice communication could be $75,000," said Kevin Perry, a substation security auditor who retired in 2018. "When you start replacing chain-link fence with 10-foot-high or 12-foot-high solid barrier walls that are embedded 36 inches into the ground, that's a pretty big chunk of change."
Utilities would have to convince state regulators that passing on the cost of those investments to ratepayers is worth it, and there are only a few states where legislators have tried to mandate stronger defenses.
North Carolina and South Carolina lawmakers have proposed bills that would boost security requirements for electrical systems, and Arizona lawmakers have proposed upping criminal penalties. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered NERC, the self-regulatory group, to consider creating new security requirements.
There have always been threats. Perry said frustrated or bored hunters had long been known to shoot at substations and other electrical infrastructure. Copper thieves — some of whom have been killed or injured — have also been a problem, he said.
There are also signs that extremists don't have detailed technical knowledge of the grid's weak points. Wellinghoff reviewed several pages on sabotaging electrical equipment from the accelerationist online magazine at Insider's request. He said he wasn't concerned.
"This is not really very sophisticated info," he said in an email. "Pretty rudimentary."
One issue that grid-security experts said they felt didn't get enough attention is the long lead time required to replace bulk power-transmission equipment. Utilities often build their substations according to custom specifications, and replacing a high-voltage transformer that is damaged beyond repair can take five years, said Perry. He said Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electrical infrastructure were adding to the demand.
The industry has responded by forming equipment-sharing pools. Richard Mroz, a former New Jersey utilities regulator who now works as a lobbyist and advisor to the group Protect Our Power, said he'd been heartened by the willingness of some state regulators to allow utilities to bill their customers for the cost of membership.
"Whether it's a terror cell or other domestic disgruntleds or someone who's just had a bad day, it doesn't matter," Mroz said. "We should take protective measures against threats."
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going. (Published 2023)
Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.
What is it with reactionary right-wing assholes claiming to care about children while enabling nothing but further harm toward them? CW for what's hinted in the title.
In the months since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, even the most easily detected child sexual abuse material has persisted on the platform.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted. A recommendation engine suggesting that a user follow content related to exploited children. Users continually posting abusive material, delays in taking it down when it is detected and friction with organizations that police it.
All since Elon Musk declared that “removing child exploitation is priority #1” in a tweet in late November.
Under Mr. Musk’s ownership, Twitter’s head of safety, Ella Irwin, said she had been moving rapidly to combat child sexual abuse material, which was prevalent on the site — as it is on most tech platforms — under the previous owners. “Twitter 2.0” will be different, the company promised.
But a review by The New York Times found that the imagery, commonly known as child pornography, persisted on the platform, including widely circulated material that the authorities consider the easiest to detect and eliminate.
After Mr. Musk took the reins in late October, Twitter largely eliminated or lost staff experienced with the problem and failed to prevent the spread of abusive images previously identified by the authorities, the review shows. Twitter also stopped paying for some detection software considered key to its efforts.
All the while, people on dark-web forums discuss how Twitter remains a platform where they can easily find the material while avoiding detection, according to transcripts of those forums from an anti-abuse group that monitors them.
“If you let sewer rats in,” said Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety commissioner, “you know that pestilence is going to come.”
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children coordinates the U.S. response to the illicit material. Twitter initially responded to its reports more slowly under Elon Musk.Credit...Kholood Eid for The New York Times
In a Twitter audio chat with Ms. Irwin in early December, an independent researcher working with Twitter said illegal content had been publicly available on the platform for years and garnered millions of views. But Ms. Irwin and others at Twitter said their efforts under Mr. Musk were paying off. During the first full month of the new ownership, the company suspended nearly 300,000 accounts for violating “child sexual exploitation” policies, 57 percent more than usual, the company said.
The effort accelerated in January, Twitter said, when it suspended 404,000 accounts. “Our recent approach is more aggressive,” the company declared in a series of tweets on Wednesday, saying it had also cracked down on people who search for the exploitative material and had reduced successful searches by 99 percent since December.
Ms. Irwin, in an interview, said the bulk of suspensions involved accounts that engaged with the material or were claiming to sell or distribute it, rather than those that posted it. She did not dispute that child sexual abuse content remains openly available on the platform, saying that “we absolutely know that we are still missing some things that we need to be able to detect better.”
Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
She added that Twitter was hiring employees and deploying “new mechanisms” to fight the problem. “We have been working on this nonstop,” she said.
- Lawsuit: The advisory firm Innisfree M&A Incorporated sued Twitter in New York State Supreme Court, seeking about $1.9 million in what it says are unpaid bills after it advised the company on its sale to Elon Musk last year.
- Up for Auction: The company is auctioning off surplus corporate assets from its San Francisco headquarters, jettisoning artifacts of a barely bygone era in Bay Area tech.
- Political Ads: Twitter said that it would begin relaxing its longstanding ban on political ads, allowing advocacy groups and elected officials to resume promotions focused on specific causes.
Wired, NBC and others have detailed Twitter’s ongoing struggles with child abuse imagery under Mr. Musk. On Tuesday, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, asked the Justice Department to review Twitter’s record in addressing the problem.
To assess the company’s claims of progress, The Times created an individual Twitter account and wrote an automated computer program that could scour the platform for the content without displaying the actual images, which are illegal to view. The material wasn’t difficult to find. In fact, Twitter helped promote it through its recommendation algorithm — a feature that suggests accounts to follow based on user activity.
Among the recommendations was an account that featured a profile picture of a shirtless boy. The child in the photo is a known victim of sexual abuse, according to the Canadian Center for Child Protection, which helped identify exploitative material on the platform for The Times by matching it against a database of previously identified imagery.
That same user followed other suspicious accounts, including one that had “liked” a video of boys sexually assaulting another boy. By Jan. 19, the video, which had been on Twitter for more than a month, had gotten more than 122,000 views, nearly 300 retweets and more than 2,600 likes. Twitter later removed the video after the Canadian center flagged it for the company.
“Removing child exploitation is priority #1,” Mr. Musk tweeted in November.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
In the first few hours of searching, the computer program found a number of images previously identified as abusive — and accounts offering to sell more. The Times flagged the posts without viewing any images, sending the web addresses to services run by Microsoft and the Canadian center.
One account in late December offered a discounted “Christmas pack” of photos and videos. That user tweeted a partly obscured image of a child who had been abused from about age 8 through adolescence. Twitter took down the post five days later, but only after the Canadian center sent the company repeated notices.
In all, the computer program found imagery of 10 victims appearing over 150 times across multiple accounts, most recently on Thursday. The accompanying tweets often advertised child rape videos and included links to encrypted platforms.
Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and the former top security executive at Facebook, found the results alarming. “Considering the focus Musk has put on child safety, it is surprising they are not doing the basics,” he said.
Separately, to confirm The Times’s findings, the Canadian center ran a test to determine how often one video series involving known victims appeared on Twitter. Analysts found 31 different videos shared by more than 40 accounts, some of which were retweeted and liked thousands of times. The videos depicted a young teenager who had been extorted online to engage in sexual acts with a prepubescent child over a period of months.
The center also did a broader scan against the most explicit videos in their database. There were more than 260 hits, with more than 174,000 likes and 63,000 retweets.
“The volume we’re able to find with a minimal amount of effort is quite significant,” said Lloyd Richardson, the technology director at the Canadian center. “It shouldn’t be the job of external people to find this sort of content sitting on their system.”
In 2019, The Times reported that many tech companies had serious gaps in policing child exploitation on their platforms. This past December, Ms. Inman Grant, the Australian online safety official, conducted an audit that found many of the same problems remained at a sampling of tech companies.
The Australian review did not include Twitter, but some of the platform’s difficulties are similar to those of other tech companies and predate Mr. Musk’s arrival, according to multiple current and former employees.
The Australian online safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said she had been unable to communicate with local representatives of Twitter because her agency’s contacts in Australia had quit or been fired since Mr. Musk took over.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York Times
Twitter, founded in 2006, started using a more comprehensive tool to scan for videos of child sexual abuse last fall, they said, and the engineering team dedicated to finding illegal photos and videos was formed just 10 months earlier. In addition, the company’s trust and safety teams have been perennially understaffed, though the company continued expanding them even amid a broad hiring freeze that began last April, four former employees said.
Over the years, the company did build internal tools to find and remove some images, and the national center often lauded the company for the thoroughness of its reports.
The platform in recent months has also experienced problems with its abuse reporting system, which allows users to notify the company when they encounter child exploitation material. (Twitter offers a guide to reporting abusive content on its platform.)
The Times used its research account to report multiple profiles that were claiming to sell or trade the content in December and January. Many of the accounts remained active and even appeared as recommendations to follow on The Times’s own account. The company said it would need more time to unravel why such recommendations would appear.
To find the material, Twitter relies on software created by an anti-trafficking organization called Thorn. Twitter has not paid the organization since Mr. Musk took over, according to people familiar with the relationship, presumably part of his larger effort to cut costs. Twitter has also stopped working with Thorn to improve the technology. The collaboration had industrywide benefits because other companies use the software.
Ms. Irwin declined to comment on Twitter’s business with specific vendors.
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Twitter’s relationship with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has also suffered, according to people who work there.
John Shehan, an executive at the center, said he was worried about the “high level of turnover” at Twitter and where the company “stands in trust and safety and their commitment to identifying and removing child sexual abuse material from their platform.”
After the transition to Mr. Musk’s ownership, Twitter initially reacted more slowly to the center’s notifications of sexual abuse content, according to data from the center, a delay of great importance to abuse survivors, who are revictimized with every new post. Twitter, like other social media sites, has a two-way relationship with the center. The site notifies the center (which can then notify law enforcement) when it is made aware of illegal content. And when the center learns of illegal content on Twitter, it alerts the site so the images and accounts can be removed.
Late last year, the company’s response time was more than double what it had been during the same period a year earlier under the prior ownership, even though the center sent it fewer alerts. In December 2021, Twitter took an average of 1.6 days to respond to 98 notices; last December, after Mr. Musk took over the company, it took 3.5 days to respond to 55. By January, it had greatly improved, taking 1.3 days to respond to 82.
The Canadian center, which serves the same function in that country, said it had seen delays as long as a week. In one instance, the Canadian center detected a video on Jan. 6 depicting the abuse of a naked girl, age 8 to 10. The organization said it sent out daily notices for about a week before Twitter removed the video.
In addition, Twitter and the U.S. national center seem to disagree about Twitter’s obligation to report accounts that claim to sell illegal material without directly posting it.
The company has not reported to the national center the hundreds of thousands of accounts it has suspended because the rules require that they “have high confidence that the person is knowingly transmitting” the illegal imagery and those accounts did not meet that threshold, Ms. Irwin said.
Mr. Shehan of the national center disputed that interpretation of the rules, noting that tech companies are also legally required to report users even if they only claim to sell or solicit the material. So far, the national center’s data show, Twitter has made about 8,000 reports monthly, a small fraction of the accounts it has suspended.
Ms. Inman Grant, the Australian regulator, said she had been unable to communicate with local representatives of the company because her agency’s contacts in Australia had quit or been fired since Mr. Musk took over. She feared that the staff reductions could lead to more trafficking in exploitative imagery.
“These local contacts play a vital role in addressing time-sensitive matters,” said Ms. Inman Grant, who was previously a safety executive at both Twitter and Microsoft.
Ms. Irwin said the company continued to be in touch with the Australian agency, and more generally she expressed confidence that Twitter was “getting a lot better” while acknowledging the challenges ahead.
“In no way are we patting ourselves on the back and saying, ‘Man, we’ve got this nailed,’” Ms. Irwin said.
Offenders continue to trade tips on dark-web forums about how to find the material on Twitter, according to posts found by the Canadian center.
On Jan. 12, one user described following hundreds of “legit” Twitter accounts that sold videos of young boys who were tricked into sending explicit recordings of themselves. Another user characterized Twitter as an easy venue for watching sexual abuse videos of all types. “People share so much,” the user wrote.
Now, nevermind all that. I know what you all really came here to see.
It's because children are just a string they pull to get parents to panic and give them more power. They care as much about children as they do about you, me and anyone else who isn't them and theirs- precisely zero.
Predators often cast the first stone in an attempt to divert suspicion away from themselves.
Wait until they find out the band Ghost exists.
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Presumably not one who enjoyed it or anticipated it, even a little.
To be fair that sort of content proliferated for years and years without Twitter seeming to particularly care, then they did one big round of banning (something like a quarter million accounts) around the same time PornHub cracked down due to being in trouble with payment processors. Seems like you should be able to do some kind of image/video fingerprinting of the same kind that gets used to look for too-obvious cases of copyright infringement on other platforms against a list of known CSAM results and thin it out at least a little.
Ben Shapiro should be mocked ruthlessly from existence for the damage he does to modern culture. Fuck him and his cabbage brain and his fascist media platform. Worthless.
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Wait. First I need a list of what is considered scorn or praise, among republicans nowadays.
You are welcome to feel that way, but if you find yourself unwittingly mocking a parody of someone, you've been made a fool.
One of my daughters - who is 8 - likes Ghost. She can almost sing “Dance Macabre”.
