A dad has been arrested after sickening footage emerged appearing to show him beating a teenage girl and shaving her hair as punishment for downloading Snapchat.
Alex Harrison, 30, was arrested after sharing the video on the same app, as well as posting it on Facebook.
The chilling clip appears to show him thrash the girl, thought to be his daughter, as she screamed in pain, while Harrison shouted: "So you want to be grown."
Another person filming the beating is heard encouraging the violence.
He is heard saying: "She wanna be grown, she getting her a** whooped and her head bald.
2.Bitcoin blows past $16,000 as cryptocurrency marketplace NiceHash gets robbed of $70 MILLION.
On the same day the digital currency topped
$16,000
for a single unit, a massive digital heist took place that emptied out $70 million (£51 million) worth of the digital currency from a marketplace based in Slovenia.Bitcoin is showing no signs of slowing down.
NiceHash was the victim of cyber hackers that emptied 4,700 Bitcoins from its digital wallet.
IG analyst Chris Beauchamp told the AFP news agency: "There seems no end to the supply of willing buyers, with the endless progression of higher prices simply fuelling the mania.
Active accounts on CoinBase have jumped from 5.5 million at the beginning of 2017 to over 13.3 million by the end of last month.
What's more, online video game service Steam has also announced today that it will no longer be accepting Bitcoin on its platform due to the volatility of the decentralised currency.
3.Why we shouldn't expect Facebook to judge whether content is pornographic?
Despite creating one of the most successful and enduring social tech products in history, the company has thus far struggled to strike the perfect balance between acting purely as a platform that allows users complete freedom of expression, and being a responsible publisher that moderates and censors content as appropriate.
Of course, it would never occur to me to suggest Facebook ban a status that confuses ‘your’ with ‘you’re’, but neither should it fall to the company to decide at what point nudity constitutes pornography.
This complex dichotomy has sparked impassioned debate around the spread of ‘fake news’ since the US election last year, but this week the conversation has shifted after Facebook banned a picture of a woman giving birth on the grounds that it constitutes ‘pornography’.
Facebook is well within its rights to remove the picture, given its terms of use prohibit nudity, but with the lack of sexual context here, the term ‘pornographic’ feels out of place.
To be honest, when I scroll through Facebook, I don’t particularly want to see a highly graphic image of a woman giving birth.
This is an issue that’s sparked controversy before when it comes to pictures of women breast feeding.
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