Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform
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Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and President Trump’s subsequent deplatforming from major social media platforms. Just recently, members of Congress and congressional aides reported conversations with the White House on how to regulate the tech titans, including reform of Section 230.
The committee’s only two female members voted in support of the effort, which compares unsolicited sexual images to a kind of digital indecent exposure. Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, D-Virginia Beach, speaking Thursday before the Virginia Senate’s Judiciary Committee. (Twitter image via Courthouse News).
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) Virginia’s Senate nixed a bill aiming to make unsolicited pictures of genitals or sex acts illegal after citing First Amendment concerns in a hearing Thursday.
“Sending an obscene picture should require consent from the recipient,” Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler argued regarding her bill, which sailed through the state’s House with unanimous consent.
3 February 2021, 9:40 pm EST By #SilhouetteChallenge: TikTok Silhouette Challenge Red Filter Being Monetized by Youtube? [Report] ( Screenshot From How to Tutorial YouTube )
For a couple of weeks now, a new trend that is called the #silhouettechallenge has widely been going viral on the app TikTok. This challenge uses a remix to Paul Anka s song Put Your Head on My Shoulder. The participants of this trend (mostly women but not all of them) would stand in front of the camera where they are fully clothed, then change and stand in their doorway with a silhouette red filter while dancing provocatively and also showing off their own body parts.
YouTube Is Profiting Off Creeps Hacking a Sexy, Body-Positive TikTok Challenge
How the #SilhouetteChallenge got hijacked
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For the past few weeks, a trend called the #silhouettechallenge has been going viral on TikTok. To a remix of Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” participants in the trend (mostly, but not all, women) stand in front of the camera fully clothed, then stand in their doorway in silhouette with a red filter, dancing provocatively and showing off their bodies.
The trend was intended to be a sexy, body-positive challenge, but it was hijacked by individuals who used software to remove the red filter from the videos to reveal women’s bodies in full, whether they’re clothed, partially clothed, or nude. And although a subreddit featuring these edited TikToks has been banned by Reddit, there are still dozens of videos on YouTube instructing people how to edit the videos. Some of them have hundreds of thousan