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Writer-director Nida Manzoor drew from Jackie Chan, Kill Bill, The Matrix, and one surprisingly bloody source
Amazon has released its list of new originals, TV shows, and movies streaming on Prime Video this May, joining a long list of content already available. Here’s what’s new through the month of May.
David Harbour’s unconventional (and surprisingly successful) Christmas action-horror Violent Night is joining Prime Video’s library this month from May 26. Promoted as a kind of mix between Die Hard and Home Alone, Violent Night sees an elite group of mercenaries break into a manion on Christmas Eve to hold the weathy family hostage, only to come up against an unlikely adversary–Santa Claus.
Prime Video has also added a sneaky late addition to April‘s lineup with The Accountant, which will be streaming from April 27. The 2016 action thriller follows Ben Affleck as a crooked forensic accountant whose criminal associations are quickly catching up with him.
THOUSANDS of violent sex attacks have been committed in NHS hospitals – with dozens of offences happening every week, a new report reveals today.
More than 6,500 rapes and sexual assaults, including against children under 13, were reported in hospitals across England and Wales in the last four years.
Thousands of violent sex attacks are committed in NHS hospitals — with dozens happening every week, a damning report revealed[/caption]
At least 2,088 rapes and 4,451 sexual assaults in hospitals were reported to police between January 2019 and October 2022.
One in seven of the offences occurred on supposedly secure hospital wards.
And figures uncovered by the Women’s Rights Network reveal just 265 people – fewer than five per cent of alleged perpetrators – were charged for their offences.
It means dozens of brutal attacks take place in hospitals every week, with WRN founder Heather Binning claiming the statistics were “just the tip of the iceberg”.
She said: “Hospitals are places where everyone – patients, staff and visitors – should feel completely safe.
“But rapes and violent assaults are taking place every week in hospitals. To add to the horror, those men committing the crimes are getting away with it.”
Ms Binning likened the revelations to paedophile Jimmy Saville’s widespread abuse of patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, calling the stats “absoloutely terrifying”.
She added: “A charge rate of 4.1 per cent is appalling – the hospitals and police are failing women and children yet again.
“No one should have the added worry that they or a loved-one is at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted when they are in hospital.”
The stats – released under a Freedom of Information request – revealed at least 10 rapes were committed against underage girls at hospitals across Cambridgeshire, Lancashire and the West Midlands.
The WRN say the true figure is likely to be higher, as only 35 of the UK’s 43 police forces provided data to the charity’s investigation.
Twitter announced that it has “officially launched” a new Violent Speech policy that outlines its “zero-tolerance approach towards Violent Speech.” Its content is similar to Twitter’s previous violent threats policy, though it manages to be both more specific and more vague.
Both policies ban you from threatening or glorifying violence in most scenarios (each version has carve-outs for “hyperbolic” speech between friends). However, the new set of rules appears to expand on some concepts while cutting down on some others. For example, the old policy stated:
Statements that express a wish or hope that someone experiences physical harm, making vague or indirect threats, or threatening actions that are unlikely to cause serious or lasting…
Twitter is once again tightening its rules around what users are permitted to say on the platform. The company introduced an updated “violent speech” policy, which contains some notable additions compared with previous versions of the rules.
Interestingly, the new policy prohibits users from expressing “wishes of harm” and similar sentiments. “This includes (but is not limited to) hoping for others to die, suffer illnesses, tragic incidents, or experience other physically harmful consequences,” the rules state. That’s a reversal from Twitter’s previous policy, which explicitly said that “statements that express a wish or hope that someone experiences physical harm” were not against the company’s rules.
“Statements that express a wish or hope that someone experiences physical harm, making vague or indirect threats, or threatening actions that are unlikely to cause serious or lasting injury are not actionable under this policy,” Twitter’s previous policy stated, according to the Wayback Machine.
That change isn’t the only addition to the policy. Twitter’s rules now also explicitly protects “infrastructure that is essential to daily, civic, or business activities” from threats of damage. From the rules:
You may not threaten to inflict physical harm on others, which includes (but is not limited to) threatening to kill, torture, sexually assault, or otherwise hurt someone. This also includes threatening to damage civilian homes and shelters, or infrastructure that is essential to daily, civic, or business activities.
These may not seem like particularly eyebrow-raising changes, but they are notable given Elon Musk’s previous statements about how speech should be handled on Twitter. Prior to taking over the company, the Tesla CEO stated that his preference would be to allow all speech that is legal. “I think we would want to err on the side of, if in doubt, let the speech exist,” he said at the time.
It’s also not the first time Twitter’s rules have become more restrictive since Musk’s takeover. The company’s rules around doxxing changed following his dustup with the (now suspended) @elonjet account, which shared the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet.
Twitter didn’t explain its rationale for the changes, but noted in a series of tweets that it may suspend accounts breaking the rules or force them to delete the tweets in question. The company no longer has a communications team to respond to requests for comment.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-updates-violent-speech-policy-to-ban-wishes-of-harm-214320985.html?src=rss