1.A British journalist who posted her own pornographic selfies on a revenge porn site to see what would happen says she’s appalled by the outright hatred of women on the internet.
News Limited reports on the case of Anna Richardson, who conducted the experiment while taking part in a documentary on revenge porn.
“When I was asked to do the documentary I thought, ‘Who cares about an idiot ex-boyfriend putting photos on Facebook?’” Anna said.
The problem was, “once those images are online, you can never get them back down again. Those pictures end up on other porn websites. If you are going for a new job and you put your name into a search engine, or your boss is looking for you, your pornographic pictures will appear.”
Anna’s partner is host of a popular UK cooking show, The Great British Bake Off, Sue Perkins. Anna says she took pornographic pictures of herself and uploaded them to a specific revenge porn website, while pretending to be an angry former boyfriend.
The site seemed so obscure and angry and ridiculous that Anna thought that nobody would notice or care. Instead, “within four days of putting the images up online, I had 100,000 hits and loads of guys commenting,” she told News Ltd.
“Some of the remarks were truly disgusting. One said “I would destroy this b—h and treat her like the s–t bag that she is.”
Anna said she had been “pig ignorant” about the “hideous reality” of online sexual revenge.
Only one state in Australia — Victoria — has revenge porn legislation, making it a criminal offence to maliciously distribute intimate images without the person’s consent.
2.Oh hilarious! Staff at a Turkish resort dressed up as armed terrorists for a poolside prank, prompting holiday-makers to run for their lives.
The Sun reports that tourists at the five-star Grand Yazici Mares hotel in Icmeler, on Turkey’s Dalmatian Coast were startled to see mock terrorists “complete with fake beards and headdresses” rushing around the pool.
One pulled out a water canister marked ‘fuel’ and another pulled out a lighter.
The prank came just six weeks after Seifiddine Rezgui opened fire on tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38 people.
“There were loads of British people round the pool, and suddenly everyone became terrified,” one holiday maker told The Sun. “I looked round and saw Arab-looking guys stalking around and above the pool carrying big guns.”
“(My sister) Dawn had been haunted by the news of the Tunisia attack and … you could see in her face that she thought her worst nightmare was coming true,” he said.
“One ran up to me with a bucket with ‘Fuel’ written on the side. He threw it over me and got out a cigarette lighter. I jumped up, not knowing what on Earth was going on. It was disgusting to try and make light of Tunisia in that way.”
A spokeswoman at the hotel told The Sun: “We are sorry and have apologised to our tour operators in the UK” and the tour company, Jet2holidays, apologised for any distress caused and said the hotel’s entertainment team had assured them that “it was never their intention to cause any offence or upset with their entertainment program. This was a Hollywood-themed poolside show, which included the characters Rambo and Superman, and is always well received by the hotel’s residents.”
3.Today’s parents probably think they have far more to worry about than parents from an earlier, more innocent time, and they are probably right.
A new survey suggests that Internet safety and ‘sexting’ – unimaginable concerns just a decade ago – are near the top of parental worries.
The more things change, however, the more they stay the same: bullying still worries parents, as does teen pregnancy and childhood obesity.
The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health has for nine years been asking adults across the U.S. about their major health concerns for kids.
Obesity, drug taking and bullying regularly top the list.
However, ‘internet safety’ – what kids see, and who tries to lure them – rose from eighth place in the 2014 survey to fourth on the list of biggest health concerns.
“We found that while the public may find benefits to today’s shifting media environment, many also recognize risks that may make young people vulnerable,” Dr. Matthew M. Davis, director of the National Poll on Children’s Health, said in a statement.
Sexting – the practice of sending or receiving sexually suggestive text messages and photos – climbed from 13th on the list to sixth.
Sexting has been linked to low self-esteem and even suicides after photos were shared with peers.
4.British actor Stephen Lewis, best known for his role as inspector “Blakey” in the 1970s sitcom On the Buses, has died aged 88.
Born in east London in 1926, he got his start at the Theatre Royal Stratford East under Joan Littlewood.
According to his family, the actor died “quite peacefully” in a nursing home in Wanstead, east London, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
He was cheerful until the end, and regularly entertained staff at the nursing home with lines from his famous show.
