Author: J B

Chief Operations Officer of The Daily Dig News

“Shell’s Exit From Nigeria” — by Andy Rowell & James Marriott

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Man shows the crude oil that has eroded the banks of the creek through his village of Goi in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, May 2019. (Milieudefensie, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
Environmental campaigners say the oil giant should not be allowed to escape culpability for the environmental and societal damage it has caused in the Niger Delta. 
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“Netanyahu Plots More Illegal West Bank Colonies” — by Jake Johnson

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April 2021. (DoD, Jack Sanders)
The Israeli prime minister’s statement on Sunday was presented as a retaliation against countries that recently joined the majority of the international community in recognizing Palestinian statehood.
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“X, Which Allows Users as Young as 13, Changes Rules to Formally Allow Porn on the Platform” — by Cassandra MacDonald

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This also applies to AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai, or anime.’ The social media platform X has changed its rules to explicitly state that pornography is allowed on the platform.

“X allows users as young as 13 to create accounts.

The platform has always been flooded with adult content, but the rules never clarified if it was allowed or not.

Tech Crunch reports, “That’s changing now. Over the weekend, X added clauses to its rules, formally allowing users to post adult and graphic content on the platform — with a few caveats. Users can now post consensually-produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such. The new rules also cover AI-generated videos and images.”

Users must mark the pornographic content so that it is not visible to minors or people who do not have their age in their profile.

X’s page on ‘adult content’ policies now states:

We believe that users should be able to create, distribute, and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed. Sexual expression, whether visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression. We believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality. We balance this freedom by restricting exposure to Adult Content for children or adult users who choose not to see it. We also prohibit content promoting exploitation, nonconsent, objectification, sexualization or harm to minors, and obscene behaviors. We also do not allow sharing Adult Content in highly visible places such as profile photos or banners.

X added, “This also applies to AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai, or anime.”

Users can report pornographic images and videos that are not properly marked as adult content.

The move could make X a formal competitor to OnlyFans, with the new paid features including subscriptions and ad revenue sharing.

The platform also has a massive problem with porn bots replying to people’s tweets with graphic images.

Tech Crunch noted, “About 13% of posts on the platform in 2022 contained adult content, according to a Reuters report in 2022 that cited internal company documents. Adult content on X has seemingly gone up since then, especially as porn bots have proliferated on the platform.””

Credit: Cassandra MacDonald. Publications: SCNR News. Published: June 3rd 2024. Source Link: https://scnr.com/article/x-which-allows-users-as-young-as-13-changes-rules-to-formally-allow-porn-on-the-platform_a1177bc621b511ef9c930242ac1c0002

“ICC Takes on Israel & US Congressional Mafia” — by Medea Benjamin

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Medea Benjamin on the pro-Israel forces in Washington trying to derail Karim Khan’s request for Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a flight to the Golan Heights in March 2019 for a military briefing. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)
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“Resistance Bombs Tel Aviv, Continues to Confront IOF in Jabalia” — by Al Mayadeen English Staff

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The Palestinian Resistance launches a rocket salvo toward Tel Aviv, confirmed by Israeli media, while confrontations persist in the northern Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam launched around 12 long-range rockets from
Rafah toward Tel Aviv on May 26, 2024. (Social Media)
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“The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act: When Empire Trumps “Free Speech”” — by Danny Haiphong

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A new law passed by the House in March eviscerates the illusion of free speech in the USA, all to protect Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A Palestinian child stands on the rubble after an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, May 19. At least 31 Palestinians were killed in this airstrike while the Israeli army announced the killing of two of its soldiers in battles in the enclave (XINHUA).
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