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Remove child abuse content or lose safe harbour: Govt to X, YouTube, Telegram

As per the notice sent to YouTube, the ministry said that it had issued an advisory on August 29, asking the company to address such content on its platform. According to the ministry, YouTube did not mention ensuring non-availability of such content in its response.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has told YouTube, Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) to remove all instances of child sexual abuse material from their platforms or lose their legal immunity on user generated content.

“We have sent notices to X, Youtube and Telegram to ensure there are no child sexual abuse material that exist on their platforms. The government is determined to build a safe and trusted internet under the IT rules,” Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a statement.

If the platforms do not act on the notice in the next few days, they could risk losing their safe harbour, the notices said.

As per the notice sent to YouTube, the ministry said that it had issued an advisory on August 29, asking the company to address such content on its platform. According to the ministry, YouTube did not mention ensuring non-availability of such content in its response.

“Through that advisory, you were further directed to forthwith ensure that as part of your obligation of due diligence, safety and trust, to immediately remove any and all such violative content, while in your response dated 22.09.2023, there is no mention of ensuring non-availability of such content in your platform,” the notice to YouTube said.

The ministry told Telegram that child abuse material should be “promptly and permanently” removed from its platform. The company should also implement proactive measures such as content moderation algorithms and reporting mechanisms, to prevent the future dissemination of such content, within three working days, the notice said.

Child sexual abuse material is one of the biggest problems on the internet, with lawmakers grappling with ways to deal with the issue. The debate has also posed complicated conversations over end-to-end encryption, with lawmakers claiming such platforms are used for the dissemination of such content.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/remove-child-abuse-content-or-lose-safe-harbour-govt-to-x-youtube-telegram-8971763/

Rahul Gandhi as Ravan and PM Modi as ‘Biggest Liar’: Congress, BJP engage in poster war on social media platforms

A combination of posters shows PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah as ‘Jumla Boy’ (L) and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as ‘Ravan’. | Photo Credit: PTI

Objecting to the BJP’s official X handle sharing an image of Rahul Gandhi, in which he is depicted as a new-age Ravan, the Congress on Thursday accused the BJP of trying to incite violence against Mr. Gandhi.

Congress general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal accused the BJP of trying to “murder” Mr. Gandhi while his party colleague and communication chief Jairam Ramesh called it “outright dangerous”.

“No words are enough to condemn the shameful graphic on the BJP handle comparing Sh. @RahulGandhi ji to Ravana. Their nefarious intentions are clear, they want to murder him,” Mr. Venugopal said in a post.

The Congress leader said the government first withdrew Mr. Gandhi’s SPG [special protection group] to score petty political points and haven’t allocated another house that he has requested for.

“All this points to a well-planned conspiracy of the BJP to eliminate their fiercest critic, someone who attacks the very core of their hate-filled ideology,” Mr Venugopal added.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a post on X, asked if the Prime Minister and BJP chief J.P. Nadda approved of the “provocative and inciteful post”.

The BJP’s poster comes a day after the Congress posted on X a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the caption “The Biggest Liar”. Another post called Mr. Modi a “Jumla Boy,” who was “Going to hit the election rally soon”.

Hitting back, the BJP on its official handle on X shared a poster of Mr. Gandhi with several heads with the title “Bharat Khatre Mein Hai [India is in danger] – A Congress party production. Directed by George Soros”.

“The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat,” the BJP said on X.

“What is the real intent of an atrocious graphic portraying Rahul Gandhi as Ravan by the BJP’s official handle? It is clearly intended to incite and provoke violence against a Congress MP and a former President of the party, whose father and grandmother were assassinated by forces that want to divide India,” Mr. Ramesh said in a post on X.

“It is one thing for the PM to give evidence daily of being a pathological liar and of suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. But for him to get his party to produce something this obnoxious is not just completely unacceptable, but is downright dangerous,” he added.

Senior leader Anand Sharma said, “BJP is rattled by Rahul Gandhi’s rising popularity and their own falling graph”.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/congress-and-bjp-engage-in-poster-war-on-social-media-platforms-rahul-gandhi-depicted-as-ravan-pm-modi-as-biggest-liar/article67384716.ece

The bullet in my brain: Singer Mutlu Kaya was shot in the head, but survived. Now, she has found a new voice on TikTok

The singer’s story made headlines around the world when she was shot after appearing on a TV talent show in Turkey by a man whose proposal she had refused. In her first UK interview, she speaks about her campaign for women’s rights and the support she has found in social media.

Pic: Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty/ My Name Is Happy

“Iron Woman” is the name given to Mutlu Kaya by her almost two million TikTok followers, due to the bullet in her brain. She is a social media star, a heroic figure to her followers. But this isn’t how she wanted to find fame.

In May 2015, aged 20, Mutlu was a finalist on the Turkish equivalent of Britain’s Got Talent. As a little girl, she used to sing into her hairbrush in front of the mirror, pretending to be a popstar, and now it looked as if her dream might come true. “I was so excited I could hear my heart,” she recalls.

But, days after appearing on the TV show, the future she had imagined was brutally snatched from her when a jilted suitor tried to kill her. Mutlu was shot in the head and spent just under two months in intensive care, her family camping in the hospital car park outside to stay near her.

Her story made headlines around the world. Eight years on, she is unable to use her hands and uses a wheelchair, and the little walking she can manage is slow and stilted. The bullet remains lodged inside her brain, a permanent reminder of her ordeal, too risky to remove.

In a cruel twist of fate, her older sister, Dilek was murdered three years ago by a man claiming to be her boyfriend. According to the Turkish campaign group We Will Stop Femicide, some 334 women lost their lives as a result of gender violence in 2022, and 245 died suspiciously.

Dilek was shot and killed the day after her 35th birthday, in March 2020. “It hit me harder than the bullet,” Mutlu says.

Today, she still wants her voice to be heard but she is no longer singing traditional Turkish folk. Instead, she has recorded a protest track, Resurrection, a Turkish trap song in which she sings of her hope that “the cruel ones will pay the price one day”. On TikTok, she is fighting for change; for harsher penalties and for violence against women in Turkey to be taken more seriously.

Mutlu is one of eight siblings, six girls and two boys, and her family comes from the small Ergani district of Diyarbakir, a conservative, Kurdish-majority city in southeastern Turkey. She speaks no English, so we communicate through a translator on a video call. Dressed in a brown spotted blouse, she looks more formal than in the TikToks in which she is often beautifully made-up, wearing bright colours. Her long, dark hair, which reaches to the backs of her knees, is pulled loosely behind her.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/the-bullet-in-my-brain-singer-mutlu-kaya-was-shot-in-the-head-but-survived-now-she-has-found-a-new-voice-on-tiktok-12887425

UNDER FIRE Kim Kardashian encourages daughter North West, 9, to dance to ‘inappropriate’ song on TikTok amid ‘bad’ parenting claims

KIM Kardashian has encouraged her daughter, North West, 9, to dance along to a song with inappropriate lyrics.

North West, the daughter of Kanye West, is no stranger to posting videos on TikTok with her mom, Kim.

Kim Kardashian and daughter, North West, have uploaded a new TikTokCredit: TikTok/@kimandnorth
The mother-daughter duo filmed their newest video earlier this weekCredit: TikTok/ kimandnorth

The mother-daughter duo filmed their newest video earlier this week while dancing to the song Go by Kanii and 9Lives in Kim’s multi-million dollar home.

Kim was spotted wearing laid-back black attire while North wore a white sweatshirt and a blue patterned skirt.

Showcased in the video, “I like school,” was displayed.

The caption wrote, “It was so fun doing it.”

The video already has over 3.1million likes despite being posted days ago.

However, the song that they were dancing to has a series of inappropriate words and doesn’t seem age appropriate for a pre-teen North’s age.

One lyric includes: “I can’t f**k with that girl ’cause she said she don’t know how to love.”

In the past, Kim has been slammed for her parenting towards her children — especially North.

‘TOO SAD’
In another TikTok posted earlier this month, Kim starred alongside North as they showed a tour of Kim’s massive kitchen and other parts of their pricy home.

The two danced to the song Money, Money, Money by ABBA.

North kicked off the video, showing herself wearing a white T-shirt with baggy black pants.

She had her hair in two ponytails and appeared to have makeup on her face.

Fans flocked to Reddit to share their thoughts on the young star’s look, with many upset that she had such heavy makeup on.

On a Reddit thread, one critic wrote: “This is NOT what a 9 year old should be looking like.”

Someone else wrote: “My daughter is that age. This is too sad.”

A third critic wrote: “These poor babies. I hope they can eventually decide to break the cycle.”

Another hater commented: “Holy s**t. She could pass as 17. This is awful.”

Someone else chimed in: “North enjoys being on social media and Kim capitalizes on it.”

A sixth critic commented: “My 13 year old is not at this stage yet – full face makeup and adult ways – thank god!”

NORTH’S SHOW
In the video, North lip-synched and danced as she mimed along to the words: “I work all night, I work all day, I pay the bills I have to pay.”

The shot then changed to Kim, who wore all-black loungewear layered with a cropped jacket.

Kim faked crying and flung herself dramatically onto a massive round couch.

In one moment of the video, North showed off the kitchen she shares with her mom and three younger siblings.

The large room had spotlit counters, a large island counter, and a big wooden table surrounded by chairs.

Kim and North then joined together for the chorus, both sporting black sunglasses as they sang the words “money, money money.”

As the video ended, the pair kissed each other on the cheek and hugged happily.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/8114279/kim-kardashian-encourages-north-dance-inappropriate-song/

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