In a briefing, Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters: “Based on what we know at this moment, there is no sign of terrorist activity with respect to this crash.”
Officials used trucks to block the Canadian entrance to the bridge as a security precaution, while Americans trapped on the other side of the border hunkered down and awaited news.
Speaking from a nearby Starbucks, he told BBC News he was on the second floor of the US Customs and Border Protection building when the blast occurred.
The US and Canada share the longest land border between two countries in the world, with people frequently crossing both sides for work, leisure and to visit family.
An eyewitness from Ontario, Mike Guenther, told the Niagara Gazette newspaper that he saw a car speed by at 100mph (160km/h) before flying into the air and erupting into a “fireball”.
Speaking in the House of Commons in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government was working with the US to ensure travellers remained safe.
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I feel this is a big win for her, she obviously suffered a horrible trauma and this website was what facilitated that.
I don’t know how this is a win for the internet. This was a website that clearly said “we connect random strangers”, and they did, and a fucked up thing happened as an improbable event based on human nature. It doesn’t seem to be caused by some fundamental aspect of the way the website works. I don’t really know how this could have been avoided. How would the website know who is a pedophile? How would the website know who is a child? I can’t think of a way without fundamentally changing user identity on the internet. I’m not sure what this means for anonymous internet interactions.
It means what it has meant since the first fifty seconds someone used chat roulette or uno on Xbox
Random unmoderated sites like this are horrifying and a danger to both people and society.
There are arguments to be made about moderation in general. But this is not a high capacity rifle with questionable purpose. This is a pistol where the barrel is pointed backwards
I can see your argument that you shouldn’t meet strangers in a private place. I mean in real life you would go to a public space if you wanted to meet new people rather than invite strangers into your living room. That wouldn’t be safe and people who facilitate that would be pretty irresponsible. That’s basically what omegle was doing.
I might be coming around. I think this will have to be very carefully managed to avoid slipping too far. There are already conservatives pushing for mandatory government ID check for viewing adult material online. I could easily see that same narrative pushed here. I think there is a real danger to the kind of censorship that is created when anonymity is removed by mandate from the internet.
Yes, but as soon all jumped, the aircraft dive to land and load the bext batch of skydivers.
The plane is usually already on the ground, loading, before the previous batch touch ground.
BUT the plane must dive far from the skydivers obviously. Was probably not the case here. More you go fast to land, better is the profit (quick rotation = more people = profit)
Edit: whoua, just read the french articles about this. The pilot didnt had a valid license at the time of the accident. He was not fit (in term of health) to fly any plane that day…
Next year the city park will be forced to close down after the council was sued for by a woman who was allowed to meet a paedophile in it as a child.
Children need to be taught how to not get abused by strangers offline and online. If they aren’t, it’s not the fault of the place that allowed them to meet. When I was a child I was using the internet to talk to adults and had a great time. (The adults who had to deal with my crappy attitude before I learnt some netiquette probably had a less great time…)
Taught not to get abused? I think you mean “stranger danger” shit, which is taught but the way you phrased that is disturbing. It’s not a child’s job to “not get abused by ‘anyone’”. And all places in general should probably keep an eye on who comes in and out, except for niche/specialized services like vpns, warez, etc. That’s just called being responsible.
Parks and other ‘loose’ non-stores though shouldn’t be held responsible, I agree.
I just wanted a phrase which encompassed “don’t go home with strangers” and “don’t send strangers photos of yourself” and all other things which either are, or lead to, abuse.
Why does Omegle being privately owned matter? Does a city council have less responsibility than a private business to prevent harm? Do your parks have security patrolling them? I’ve never seen that. Was Omegle “full” of perverts, or were there are a handful in comparison to the many ordinary users, but our attention naturally focuses on the aberrant cases?
“club” implies membership, which Omegle didn’t have, which is the whole issue, and why I went with a park which anyone can enter without registering, not a club.
You drew a distinction between a park and children doing stuff online (on certain websites) by saying that in a park, everyone can see everyone else (which is not true - there are usually secluded spots in parks). This is no distinction at all if a child’s parents knows what they are doing online.
There are days like these where I’m glad it’s not morons like you who run things because the world would genuinely be an even shittier place with takes like these. Mental gymnastics to blaming children for being abused.
You haven’t said why it matters it was privately run.
It matters that it had private rooms, but there tend to be private areas in public spaces like parks too. The analogy actually works much better if the kid’s computer is in a public place and they don’t have unrestricted access to the internet through a phone - obviously in either case it’s harder to abuse someone in secret if you have to take the initial risk of meeting somewhere you could be spotted, and only then move it private.
He did take action to stop it - he aided in multiple prosecutions. What he didn’t do was turn the site into something completely different, with mandatory registration.
How does that contradict what I said, or else what point are you trying to make?
Even though you’re quite sure the site owner needed to do more to stop paedophiles, you haven’t said what. Is what you think he should have done to have sacrificed anonymity?
Omegle’s moderation even had a positive impact beyond the site. Omegle worked with law enforcement agencies, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to help put evildoers in prison where they belong. There are “people” rotting behind bars right now thanks in part to evidence that Omegle proactively collected against them, and tipped the authorities off to.
The NCMEC received information from Omegle about the activities of a paedophile and it led to their conviction.
But your quote is not the opposite of my claim. It says that “the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles.” How many of those cases included evidence collected and submitted by Omegle?
Do please answer my question:
Even though you’re quite sure the site owner needed to do more to stop paedophiles, you haven’t said what. Is what you think he should have done to have sacrificed anonymity?
FWIW, LWD’s ability to click “reply” outran his ability fill those replies with meaningful words, and instead of admitting they can’t back up their opinion they’re resorting to insults and insinuation.
As much as omegle was a cesspit, there are already even sketchier alternatives up and running. This will be a wild goose chase with no end in sight unless sites like this get rid of all privacy and log every single interaction and step up their moderation.
Like piracy sites and other illegal/grey areas, take one source down and two more will appear, or however the saying goes.
“I feel personal pride that no more children will be added to Omegle’s body count,” says the woman who successfully forced the infamous chat site to shut down.
Speaking for the first time since the platform was taken offline, “Alice” or “A.M.” as she’s known in court documents, tells the BBC she demanded the website’s closure as part of an out-of-court settlement.
Omegle’s popularity rose during the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, and was the subject of a BBC investigation which revealed that prepubescent boys were found to be explicitly touching themselves in front of strangers.
On Friday, a week after Leif Brooks closed his chat service with a lengthy statement, he added a sentence at the bottom: “I thank A.M. for opening my eyes to the human cost of Omegle.”
Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy speaks exclusively with child abuse survivor “Alice” and her legal team, as they prepare a case that could have major consequences for social media companies.
Alice’s case is a legal landmark, as most social media lawsuits in the US are dismissed under a catch-all protection law called Section 230, which exempts companies from being sued for things that users do on their platforms.
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Look at this corporate bullshit awards show. They even trotted out Mariah Carey and made her sing that bullshit Christmas song for the 100,000,000th time. Poor woman. They will put her head in a jar and make it sing forever if they can figure out how, damn sure they don’t care about the n word. They’re trying to get paid.
I’m not sure how the Billboards awards could be anything but corporate. The whole thing is predicated on sales, that’s like their whole thing. So of course they’re trying to get paid. Are you going to complain that puddles are shallow and muddy next? Are we going to be shocked that popular country music fans are small minded racists next?
I’m only shocked because I don’t have cable. Haven’t seen an awards show in decades, though I saw Will Smith wallop that little kid and I saw Ricky Gervais turn the entire crowd against him (except for Tom Hanks). It just shocks me when I see footage of such events, how shallow and obvious the corporate sponsorship has become, or maybe I was just less aware of it as a youngster. This was less of a complaint and more of a lamentation. You can see the oligarchies in the crowd.
She gets paid millions in residuals and gets to perform in front of an audience. She could do nothing ever and get residuals checks from that one single song playing incessantly every year that are more than most working people will see in their lifetimes. She’s not a poor woman by any stretch. It’s like that fucking Elvis movie that made me feel bad for that sloppy drug-addled fuck because he felt like he had no freedom in his life.
Like, I’m sorry, you’re richer than God, stop being greedy and make better choices if you’re so unhappy.
An investigation has been launched after nine people died when torrential rain caused a highway tunnel wall to collapse in the capital Santo Domingo.
The Emergency Operations Center (COE) said rain caused flooded homes, power cuts and damaged bridges and roads.
Dominican President Luis Abinader called it the “largest rainfall event ever” in the country’s history, following torrential storms over the past 48 hours.
The Caribbean nation has been battered by torrential rainfall with footage on social media showing torrents of water flowing through streets and washing away vehicles.
President Abinader said classes have been suspended until Wednesday “in order to evaluate the schools that may have been affected” and “guarantee the safety of our young people”.
He posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he was “deeply shocked by the loss of life due to the heavy rains” and offered “unconditional support to all those affected by this emergency”.
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It’s a civil war, who should care and how? It’s Sudan’s internal problem and unless they wish to get occupied and colonised, they should deal with it themselves.
Seven months after the start of Sudan’s civil war, conditions for many in the capital, Khartoum, are worse than ever - but some of those who escaped from the city in the early days are also struggling to survive.
“We need a ceasefire that allows us to deliver humanitarian aid to those affected and assess the extent of their needs,” says the UN’s deputy special representative in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami.
A few short humanitarian truces were agreed in the early months of the war, but various ongoing peace initiatives are making little tangible progress.
In a shelter for displaced people in the port city, I met Hawa Suleiman trying in vain to make a meal for her five children from the meagre remains of a tin of wheat.
As well as the Sudanese, people from many other nationalities are suffering because of this war - among them Syrians, Pakistanis and Indians, and large numbers of refugees from South Sudan.
She had earlier fled from South Sudan and settled in a camp for displaced people in Khartoum’s north-eastern district of al-Haj Yousif.
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The child, now aged seven, told police he obtained the firearm by mounting a drawer to reach his mom’s handbag on top of a dresser, where the handgun was kept.
Dipshit. I’m assuming VA doesn’t have any law about securing firearms. This is why we need them. You’d think it would be common sense, but I guess not.
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