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British Police Investigate Virtual Rape Of Young Girl In The Metaverse
The ‘s#xual attack’ of a young girl in a virtual reality
video game has sparked what is believed to be the first investigation of
its kind.
British Police are investigating the first case of rape in the
metaverse after the digital persona of a girl under the age of 16 was
‘s#xually attacked by gang of adult men in immersive video game’
The girl was said to have been left distraught after her avatar (digital character) was gang raped by the online strangers.
The Mail Online reports: The headset-wearing victim did not suffer any injuries as there was no physical attack.
But officers said she suffered the same psychological and emotional
trauma as someone who has been raped in the real world as the ‘VR’
experience is designed to be completely immersive.
It is thought to be the first time in the UK that a virtual s#xual offence has been investigated by police.
Virtual reality headsets were expected to be a popular gift this Christmas, with the NSPCC estimating that 15 per cent of children aged between five and ten have used one and 6 per cent use one daily.
Led by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg,
tech giants have bet billions of pounds on drawing people – young and
old – towards the virtual realm of the ‘metaverse’, selling the chance
to live a digitised, fantasy life. The victim was in an online ‘room’
with a large number of fellow users when the virtual assault by several
adult men took place.
Police leaders are now calling for legislation to tackle a wave of
sexual offending in such a sphere, saying officers’ tactics must evolve
to stop perverts using new technology to exploit children.
But the landmark case has prompted questions about whether police
should be pursuing virtual offences – given police and prosecutors are
currently struggling with an enormous backlog of actual rape cases – and
if such an attack should be prosecuted under current laws.
Yesterday the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Child Protection and
Abuse Investigation Lead, Ian Critchley, warned ‘the metaverse creates a
gateway for predators to commit horrific crimes against children’.
Details of the extraordinary virtual reality case have been kept
secret to protect the child involved, amid fears that, for several
reasons, a prosecution will not be possible.
But one senior officer familiar with the case said: ‘This child
experienced psychological trauma similar to that of someone who has been
physically raped. There is an emotional and psychological impact on the
victim that is longer term than any physical injuries.
‘It poses a number of challenges for law enforcement given current
legislation is not set up for this.’ There have been a number of
reported s#x attacks on Horizon Worlds, a free VR online game run by
Facebook’s owner, Meta.
In Horizon Worlds users create their own avatars, an animated online
representation of themselves that they can design and then control while
wearing their virtual reality headset and associated equipment.
Nina Jane Patel, a psychotherapist who conducts research on the
metaverse, has described a ‘surreal nightmare’ of being gang raped in
Horizon Venues.
The chairman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
Donna Jones told the Mail that women and children deserve greater
protection: ‘We need to update our laws because they have not kept pace
with the risks of harm that are developing from artificial intelligence
and offending on platforms like the metaverse.
(Article by Baxter Dmitry republished from thepeoplesvoice.tv)
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Experts Declare Experimental Cancer Vaccine Based On mRNA Technology Is ‘Safe and Effective’
A new cancer vaccine based on Covid mRNA vaccine technology
which has yet to be clinically tested has already been declared “safe
and effective” by the British government.
Known as ‘LungVax’,
the new vaccine is being developed by the University of Oxford, the
Francis Crick Institute and University College London, and is expected
to be the first of a huge range of new cancer vaccinations available in
the near future.
Research scientists developing the ‘groundbreaking’ lung cancer
vaccine claim it will be effective in preventing up to 90 per cent of
cases by training the immune system to locate and attack early signs of
disease.
Lung cancer cells look different from normal cells due to having ‘red
flag’ proteins called neoantigens. The LungVax vaccine will carry a strand of DNA which trains the immune system to recognize these neoantigens on abnormal lung cells.
It will then instruct the immune system to destroy these cells and stop lung cancer.
Professor Tim Elliot, lead researcher at the University of Oxford, said: ‘Cancer
is a disease of our own bodies and it’s hard for the immune system to
distinguish between what’s normal and what’s cancer.
‘Getting the immune system to recognize and attack cancer is one of the biggest challenges in cancer research today.”
Elliot admitted the new vaccine is based on technology used to create the Covid vaccine.
‘This research could deliver an off-the-shelf vaccine based on
Oxford’s vaccine technology, which proved itself in the Covid pandemic.
Remarkably, given the disastrous health consequences for those
vaccinated with the experimental Covid vaccines, Eilliot praised the
mRNA roll out as a success.
‘If we can replicate the kind of success seen in trials during
the pandemic, we could save the lives of tens of thousands of people
every year in the UK alone.’
Researchers have been granted up to £1.7 million from Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation.
The team will receive funding for the study over the next 2 years to
support lab research and initial manufacturing of 3,000 doses of the
vaccine at the Oxford Clinical BioManufacturing Facility.
If successful, the vaccine will move straight into a clinical trials,
involving those at biggest risk of disease, such as current and former
smokers who currently qualify for targeted lung health checks in some
parts of the UK.
Elon Musk’s X must be “shut down” by government because dangerous “conspiracy theories” are spreading on the social media platform, according to British TV host Jeremy Vine.
“If there any argument to say, and this will sound crazy, but
China does it, we’ve got to now take control of Twitter and shut it down
for the time being,” said Vine.
Vine made the comments earlier this week during a heated debate
regarding speculation surrounding the health and whereabouts of Kate
Middleton, the Princess of Wales.
Boomers have become obsessed with speculating that Middleton has died or is severely unwell and that the Royal Family is hiding it because she hasn’t been seen in months after an operation.
The manipulation of a series of photo of Middleton and her children also only served to fuel the rumors, as some sources close to the princess claimed she had been murdered by the royal family.
However, instead of dismissing the whole issue for what it is, a pointless distraction that will disappear once Middleton makes a public appearance around Easter, Vine called for draconian measures.
Modernity report:
Ah yes, the Communist dictatorship of China, which shuts down the Internet to clamp down on dissent and enhance its repression of undesirables.
That’s definitely who we should be mimicking, Jeremy.
Throughout the COVID pandemic, Vine’s show was a platform for some of the most vulgar, authoritarian drivel imaginable.
One show asked if children who are unvaccinated should be banned from schools or made to wear special badges.
Another asked, “Is it time to ban the unvaccinated from traveling?”
Vine has made a name for himself as being a dutiful amplifier of regime messaging, while his annoying side hobby of biking around London looking to film confrontations with motorists has also angered many.
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