![]() ![]() Her mother wanted to seek help for her but she didn't want to. Gibbs interrogates her and it is revealed that the girl is actually a sociopath. However, Gibbs smells something is wrong when it is discovered that Rachel's bruises were from before her father was in the US. He is arrested and admits to killing his wife. The team goes to search for Ryan but can't find him at his hotel room, so they track him down to a rest stop. ![]() He also reveals that he had seen bruises on Rachel's body when her father was home. He tells them that he had the gun locked away by his neighbour because he tried to kill himself. ![]() The gun used to kill the victim is matched to a previous crime committed by the victim's neighbour. However, he is behind bars and has no apparent motive to kill her as he says he liked her. George Burton, a creepy cannibal that was one of the victim's clients. Since she informs the team that the site owner is locked up, they deduce it coudln't be the jihadist group that killed the marine's wife. When McGee goes undercover to exonerate the site owner, they run into an ATF operation led by Special Agent Zoe Keates, whom Tony knows from his days at Philidelphia PD. The team learns that he was part of the operation to take down Benham Parsa (seriously, him again?) and as a result, he is now on an online jihadist target list. As they dig into the case, Rachel tells NCIS that some men were out to kill her father Ryan. Her father is a US marine who is deployed overseas so naturally NCIS is called in. You have to really put your arm around the kids while you’re pushing Big Tech away.The case starts when 10-year old Rachel finds the body of her mother when she comes home from a sleepover. “Children have specific developmental needs, and we want to protect them at the same time that we’re trying to push back on Big Tech,” Perry said. Still, child development experts are generally hopeful about the growing push to regulate social media and its effects on children. Amid concerns about enforcement, lawmakers in the deeply religious state revised the bill to prevent it from taking effect unless five other states passed similar laws - which has not happened. Spencer Cox signed legislation that called on tech companies to automatically block porn on cell phones and tablets sold, citing the dangers it posed to children. The laws are the latest effort from Utah lawmakers focused on children and the information they can access online. For instance, Instagram and TikTok could slow down all users’ ability to mindlessly scroll on their platforms for hours on end. Perry suggests that instead of age verification, there are steps tech companies could take to make their platforms less harmful, less addictive, across the board. But even if the laws clear the inevitable lawsuits from tech giants, it’s not clear how Utah will be able to enforce them. The rules could drastically transform how people in this conservative state access social media and the internet, and if successful, serve as a model for other states to enact similar legislation. This is especially true for LGBTQ+ kids whose parents are not accepting of their identity. They also require tech companies to give parents access to their kids’ accounts and private messages, which has raised alarms for child advocates who say this could further harm children’s mental health by depriving them of their right to privacy. The laws, which will go into effect in a year, impose a digital curfew on people under 18, require minors to get parental consent to sign up for social media apps and force companies to verify the ages of all their Utah users. “Children may be put at increased risk if these laws are enforced in such a way that they’re not allowed to some privacy, if they are not allowed some ability for freedom of speech or autonomy,” said Kris Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. And while parental rights are a central theme of Utah’s new laws, experts point out that the rights of parents and the best interests of children are not always aligned.įor instance, allowing parents to read their kids’ private messages may be harmful to some children, and age verification requirements could give tech companies access to kids’ personal information, including biometric data, if they use tools such as facial recognition to check ages. What’s not clear is if - and how - the new rules can be enforced and whether they will create unintended consequences for kids and teens already coping with a mental health crisis. Utah’s sweeping social media legislation passed this week is an ambitious attempt to shield children and teens from the ill effects of social media and empower parents to decide whether their kids should be using apps like TikTok or Instagram. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |