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10-31 TikTok is Raising the Age Requirement for TikTok Live, Adding Adult Only Livestreams

10-31 TikTok is Raising the Age Requirement for TikTok Live, Adding Adult Only Livestreams

October 31, 2022 lynnswarriors

TikTok is raising the age requirement for hosting livestreams on its platform, as well as launching adult-only livestreams, the company announced on Monday. Currently, you need to be 16 or older to host a livestream. Starting on November 23, users will have to be 18 years old in order to go live on the platform. TikTok says the change is part of its ongoing work to keep its community safe.

As for the adult-only livestreams, TikTok plans to roll those out in the coming weeks. The official roll out comes as the company began testing the ability to restrict livestreams to viewers who at 18 years old and above in July. It’s important to note that TikTok’s new 18+ restriction setting for livestreams isn’t a way for users to broadcast adult content, as the content is still subject to the app’s policies. Instead, it’s a way for creators to prevent minors from encountering content that’s aimed toward an adult audience or may be uninteresting to them.

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10-30 The Best Kept Secret In Preparing Kids Against Pornography

October 30, 2022 lynnswarriors

Sound the alarm. They are going to see it. You need to be there first.

It feels impossible to keep kids from seeing pornography these days. Social media and big tech have stacked the cards against parents. Parents should have the power to direct, teach, and help their children without the constant threat of an addictive substance being offered to them. Instead, parents are finding themselves frustrated or overwhelmed as they try to protect their children from pornography.

While filters, rules, and monitoring are important, they are not foolproof, and most children will still be exposed to pornography one way or another. It’s time to prepare our children to be pornography resistant. When the endless protecting fails, our kids need to be ready to handle what happens.

The best kept secret in the fight for your kids’ minds is role-playing. A simple and not very time-consuming activity that costs nothing. Role-playing is practicing difficult situations with your child that might come up as they navigate through a world filled with pornography.

Pornography and the issues surrounding it often produce big emotions like fear, panic, anger, excitement, shame, and sadness. When you practice tricky situations before (or even after) they happen, you and your child are prepared and feel more comfortable to make a healthy choice in the real moment.

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10-29 U.S. Investigator Reveals OnlyFans Has a Child Porn Problem (CSAM – Child Sexual Abuse Material)

October 29, 2022 lynnswarriors
The online platform OnlyFans, which deals heavily in adult content, is reportedly hosting users that are creating child pornography as investigators uncover child abuse images with OnlyFans watermarks produced in recent months that are circling the Internet and are easy to find.

 

According to the BBC, a senior US investigator told the outlet that, of the victims, “The youngest was around five years old” and that whatever methodology OnlyFans is using to catch child pornographers and pedophiles, “there’s still cracks that it’s still slipping through.”

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10-28 Uldouz Joins Warrior Wednesday WVOX to Tell Us Why We Need the PROTECT Act.

10-28 Uldouz Joins Warrior Wednesday WVOX to Tell Us Why We Need the PROTECT Act.

October 28, 2022 lynnswarriors
A must-listen. Survivor Leader Uldouz Wallace joins Lynn’s Warriors WVOX to explain her horrific story of being hacked online and why she is now advocating for the #PROTECTAct in Congress and for the public. #IBSA = Image-based sexual abuse & it must be stopped now! ! #SupportSurvivors
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10-27 TikTok Found Not Liable for Death of 10-Year-Old Girl Who Tried ‘Blackout Challenge’ She Found on Site

10-27 TikTok Found Not Liable for Death of 10-Year-Old Girl Who Tried ‘Blackout Challenge’ She Found on Site

October 27, 2022 lynnswarriors

WARNING. Disturbing content.

TikTok isn’t liable for the death of a 10-year-old girl who watched a so-called Blackout Challenge video that encouraged people to choke themselves, a judge ruled.

US District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia said a federal law shielded the video-sharing platform from liability in the death of Nylah Anderson, even if the company’s app recommended the video to her.

The Blackout Challenge encourages viewers to videotape themselves choking to the point of passing out. Versions of the challenge have been posted on various platforms and have been blamed for the deaths of multiple children. Other wrongful death lawsuits against TikTok over the challenge are pending in federal courts in Oakland and Los Angeles.

Anderson was found hanging from a purse strap in a closet of her home in Pennsylvania in December 2021, according to court records. Her mother sued TikTok, claiming it had recommended the video to the girl on her “For You Page.”

In an eight-page ruling Tuesday, Diamond said even if the app had recommended the video to the girl, TikTok couldn’t be sued. Promoting a video to a user is “exactly the activity” that is shielded from liability under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, he wrote. “The wisdom of conferring such immunity is something properly taken up with Congress, not the courts,” he added.

Congress added Section 230 to the 1996 law in an effort to shield online content providers from being buried under mountains of litigation based on the the content posted by users on their platforms.

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10-26 Warrior Wednesday WVOX Radio is Here! Actress/Writer/Producer & Now Survivor Leader ULDOUZ Joins Us.

10-26 Warrior Wednesday WVOX Radio is Here! Actress/Writer/Producer & Now Survivor Leader ULDOUZ Joins Us.

October 26, 2022 lynnswarriors

Uldouz Wallace is a victim of IBSA – Image Based Sexual Abuse. Now she has bravely stepped forward to share her personal story and recently testified in front of Congress. The bipartisan PROTECT Act has been introduced by Senator Mike Lee (Utah). Join us today to hear why there are currently no federal laws to address non-consensual images online or age verification. Uldouz wants to protect children. Join us and find out how you can help. Lynn’s Warriors #WVOXRadio 3-4PM ET 1460AMNY WVOX App WVOX.com

lynnswarriors10-26 Warrior Wednesday WVOX Radio is Here! Actress/Writer/Producer & Now Survivor Leader ULDOUZ Joins Us.
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10-24 Sound the Alarm! Why Today’s Marijuana Use in Teens is Harmful

10-24 Sound the Alarm! Why Today’s Marijuana Use in Teens is Harmful

October 24, 2022 lynnswarriors
The stigma of marijuana use has declined since the early 2000s, with some states legalizing it for medical and even recreational uses. While it may not be as problematic for adult use as once believed, there are still plenty of good reasons to discourage pot smoking in teenagers.

First of all, it’s illegal. And research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) indicates that childhood marijuana use can affect learning ability, attention, memory, coordination, balance, judgment, and decision-making.

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10-23 Sound the Alarm! Sexual Assault Related ER Visits Increase Tenfold Since 2006

10-23 Sound the Alarm! Sexual Assault Related ER Visits Increase Tenfold Since 2006

October 23, 2022 lynnswarriors
Emergency department visits related to sexual assault increased more than tenfold over a span of 13 years, according to a new study that experts and advocates say reflects a growing cultural shift around confronting sexual assault. The research, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, showed that those visits increased 1,533% from 2006 to 2019 — a jump from 3,600 annual visits to 55,200.
Tammy Toney Butler – SANE, NUAHT, Collaborator & Lynn’s Warriors Advisory Council Member

“What we have to understand is that in these sexual assaults are invisible victims of human trafficking. We must educate appropriately so we can identify them and treat them appropriately thereby possibly gaining a disclosure. Empower with resources and mandatory report if a minor. Please consider doing our training where I show you the intersectionality’s of sexual assaults and human trafficking.”
See our learning management system Nurses United Against Human Trafficking – NUAHT
Human Trafficking 102, 103 and 104 look at this very topic.
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10-22 No More Public Access to the National Sex Offender Registry?

10-22 No More Public Access to the National Sex Offender Registry?

October 22, 2022 lynnswarriors

Dear Warrior:

Sometimes I wake up and think I’ve been dreaming. Why is it so hard to protect our precious children? So many good people working nonstop to advocate for children’s protection. Why would anyone want to contribute to harming them? What does this say about us as a society? Surely, everyone can support the bipartisan work of protecting kids. But will the

Last May, the Warriors, along with many other colleagues, all working to protect children, received very disturbing and new  information. Significant changes to the U.S. Model Penal Code (MPC)would occur. These changes would be issued by the American Law Institute and could make it more difficult to prosecute those who sell or buy children for sex. Furthermore, these harmful updates could block the public, including victims and child-serving organizations, from having access to sex offender registries.

These updated changes would be the first in 60 years. Where did this come from? Why such little discussion among law enforcement and child safety groups and experts? Why such harmful updates? How come there was scant information available and no media coverage? Who exactly proposed and voted on these changes because no one we know is in favor of these disastrous changes that will affect the protection of our vulnerable children?

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