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Social media giants Twitter and Snapchat are defending anonymity online as lawmakers and bureaucrats work on a series of proposed laws that would force Australians to verify their age before using many of the most popular sites on the internet.While the laws planned by the government would not require users to post their real names, Snapchat’s parent company is concerned technology giants would effectively be forced to keep copies of users’ IDs and contact information to meet planned age verification rules.Snapchat, which has undergone a recent revival, counts about 5 million users in Australia.Credit:Bloomberg“Several of the measures which the government is currently proposing to introduce seem designed to end the right to anonymity online,” Snap said in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into online safety.It argues an erosion of anonymity could hurt people who use it to protect themselves online, from survivors of domestic violence to Australians critical of repressive foreign regimes that target dissidents abroad.Twitter argues that anonymity alone does not lead to abuse online. “In many cases people post harassing, toxic replies under their real name, with a photo of their real face,” the company said in its submission. And a digital identification policy, it warned, could…

A woman is suing the city of Detroit and two former Detroit Police officers who were fired in 2019 after they allegedly posted a racially charged video of her to social media after a traffic stop.Ariel Moore of Detroit alleges that the two former officers, Gary Steele and Michael Garrison, posted a video of her walking home in "dangerously below freezing" weather after they confiscated her car keys when they pulled her over for an alleged absence of a registration tab in January 2019. The video, posted to Snapchat, was captioned "What Black Girl Magic Looks Like" and “Celebrating Black History Month,” and two men, allegedly Steele and Garrison, can be heard saying “Walk of shame. In the cold” and “Bye, Felicia.”Moore, a Black woman, says the officers' alleged actions constituted racial discrimination and caused "great physical pain," "emotional distress" and "humiliation" in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.The suit claims the two former officers, both of whom are White, acted “willfully, maliciously, in bad faith and in reckless disregard of federally protected rights,” and that the city failed to adequately train its officers prior to the incident and adequately respond when it occurred. The incident sparked controversy in 2019 and earned the condemnation of then-police Chief James…

To start 2022 with the right foot, Snapchat posted in its newsroom a major update arriving on its iPhone app in the coming days that will make chatting with friends more fun and expressive. According to Snapchat, after this update is released, users will be able to reply, react, and even survey friends across Android and iOS devices with several new features: Chat Reply – With Chat Replies you can respond to individual messages in an ongoing chat to help you keep conversations on track and communicate with context. To start a thread, hold down on a message in Chat and tap Reply; Bitmoji Reactions – With Bitmoji Reactions, it’s easier than ever to share your feelings on the Snapchat chat. There are seven Bitmoji emotions to choose from, so you’ll have a quick and easy way to react to any message; Poll Stickers – Now, you can add Emoji-powered Polls to Snaps and Stories to survey friends for their thoughts. Snapchat visual Polls work across iOS and Android, so all your friends can weigh in and show their thoughts. Plus, Snaps Polls were designed with transparency in mind–you can see how your friends voted to help ensure responses stay thoughtful and kind.…

Kamaru Usman is one of the nicest guys on the UFC roster, compared to many others who have made trash-talking their persona. However, just a few days ago Usman posted some stories on his Snapchat that shocked many of his fans. Now, the welterweight champ is here with some much-needed clarifications.ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adIn a shocking series of Snapchat stories on 9th January, ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ asked his viewers to ‘choke’ themselves and ‘kill’ themselves. These sudden and shocking social media posts left many of his fans confused and wanting answers. However, the welterweight champion was quick to address the problem. As he posted a video on his Snapchat and described why he did what he did.ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adApparently, Usman was drunk during the early morning and posted the same while in the condition and cleared it for his fans. He said, “Let me clear this up, I know that was tough. It was 4 am in the morning, it was a little slizzered and obviously, I typed that the wrong way,”However, the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ had the same fury for his haters. “Let me rephrase this for that hater. You know who you are, that particular hater. There’s…

People are outraged after a woman hacks into her ‘cheating’ ex’s Snapchat account. The woman read the data log from her ex-boyfriend’s email after making a data request on his behalf. She even gave viewers a tutorial on how to submit the request on the app. A woman went to great lengths to catch her boyfriend cheating by obtaining his data log from his social media account. The TikToker even gave advice to her followers on how to find out if their partner has been secretly chatting with other people. “That one time I was able to hack into my ex’s Snapchat account and literally found a way to see every message they sentreceived and from who,” she said in a TikTok video. The woman casually scrolls through the data-filled screen and discovers a list of usernames that she believes are from the females her ex-boyfriend has been chatting with during their dating relationship. Her video went viral, and many women asked for a tutorial on how to perform the hack. “All you need is a few things – his Snapchat username and password, and his email,” she said. She then demonstrated how to send a data request from Snapchat’s…

SportUFCThe welterweight established himself as the UFC’s pound-for-pound No1 men’s fighter in 2021 Dana White responds to Jake Paul's UFC contract proposalKamaru Usman launched an angry tirade at a number of his Snapchat followers at the weekend, telling his “haters” to “kill” themselves.The UFC welterweight champion fought three times in 2021, retaining his title on each occasion to establish himself as the promotion’s pound-for-pound No1 men’s fighter.Despite achieving widespread appreciation for his skills, the Nigerian-American still has his detractors, at whom he hit out in a Snapchat story.“Whomever you are watching my story, please just choke yourself,” Usman wrote, per the Mirror. “2022 started and your life is centred around others.“Better yet, kill yourself. Having fun watching my life and not yours.“I love my fans, even those that yet because you truly only wish you could be me.”Usman, 34, later posted a video on his Snapchat, addressing the matter again.“Let me clear this up, I know that was tough,” he said. “It was 4am in the morning, it was a little and obviously I typed that the wrong way.“Let me rephrase this for that hater. You know who you are, that particular hater. There’s one of you…

A 19-year-old Feasterville man will spend 14 days behind bars for his involvement with the attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election.Prosecutors were seeking a 45-day sentence for Leonard Pearso Ridge, whose lawyers asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sentence Ridge only to probation.Boasberg instead gave Ridge a two-week prison sentence, 100 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine.Boasberg said last Tuesday it was the Neshaminy High School graduate’s age that kept Ridge from serving the full sentence, but his text messages before and after the riots made some jail time appropriate.Ridge was arrested in May 2020 in Lower Southampton after at least three witnesses told federal investigators last January about social media posts Ridge made chronicling his time inside the Capitol Building.A Snapchat photo taken by Leonard Pearso Ridge IV, of Feasterville, inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. Ridge was sentenced to 14 days in prison, 100 hours of community service and fined $1,000 last week.Ridge told another Snapchat user on Dec. 29 that the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and that “something big will happen in this nation very soon.”On Jan. 6, Ridge claimed he saw the shooting of Ashley Babbitt, the Air…

Taylor police have confirmed that a 16-year-old student has been arrested in connection with a threat to shoot up Taylor High School, and another arrest made involving an online Snapchat threat. The high school threat was made Thursday and was found in a bathroom. When asked if he thought the threat was credible, Taylor Police Chief John Blair said, “it was explicitly specific.” The note mentioned shooting up the school on Jan. 6. It is not clear if the student was arrested at the school or at a different location. Since the school shooting in Oxford, in which four students were killed and seven injured, there have been more than a dozen threats made against Taylor schools. “This is about the fourth person we have taken into custody,” Blair said prior to announcing the Snapchat threat and arrest. After interviewing students suspected of making threats, Blair said many of them have said they were just kidding and/or didn’t mean it. Nevertheless, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is not treating the incidents like a joke. More than two dozen students have been charged as a result of threats made against schools. On Thursday afternoon, students had to secure themselves inside the…

That is the stunning second a teen is seen fleeing for his life after pondering he was assembly a woman for a date, however as a substitute was ambushed and stabbed 9 occasions in a ‘vicious’ revenge assault. Described as a ‘honey entice’, the 17-year-old sufferer was lured by a 16-year-old lady over Snapchat to fulfill her in a road in Fishponds, Bristol, earlier than being stabbed a number of occasions by his assailant. He required life-saving hospital remedy following the ‘co-ordinated’ assault on 12 February 2021. CCTV reveals the stunning second a 17-year-old boy was lured to a date over Snapchat earlier than being chased and stabbed 9 occasions, leaving him needing life-saving hospital remedy When he arrived, he was set upon by a gaggle of males and, regardless of fleeing, was severely injured within the assault that was caught on CCTV. After the incident, the first attacker despatched the ‘mic drop’ emoji to the lady on Snapchat to point the deed was accomplished. The feminine and male assailant, who’ve each since turned 17, had been sentenced to 3 and 4 years in jail respectively at Bristol Crown Courtroom on Friday. Whereas the male teenager pleaded responsible to trigger grievous…

A woman says she is now scared to go out after being beaten up by a man at club on New Year’s Eve. Yazmin Flowers, from the West Midlands, said she was attacked in the VIP area of Chinawhite in Newcastle after she refused to give a man her Snapchat contact, reported ChronicleLive. The 21-year-old claimed the man initially slapped her before attacking her again after she returned to confront him. She said: “He asked me for my Snapchat and I said no. He looked at me then slapped me across the face. “I burst into tears and went to the toilets. A friend followed me in and I told her what happened. The 21-year-old sustained damage to her lip on the night out ( Image: Handout) She was attacked on an evening with friends in Newcastle ( Image: Handout) “My friend went up to him to confront him and then it all happened so fast – he must have punched me at least three times in the face. “He then hit my friend and caused her to smash her phone. He really hurt her jaw. “I go out quite a lot, but now I don’t want to go out…