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Biden Launches Highly Biased Task Force

The Biden regime has revealed a new task force called the  “White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse.” In a statement on June 16, the White House said that Joe Biden would sign a governmental memorandum to develop the task force, “responding to the need for government leadership to address online harms, which disproportionately affect women, girls, people of color, and LGBTQI+ individuals.”

The new White House task force is co-chaired by the White House Gender Policy Council and National Security Council.

The task force is needed to send a plan “outlining a whole-of-government approach to preventing and addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence” within 180 days of Biden’s presidential memorandum.

The suggestions in the plan will be for the federal government and state federal government, in addition to innovation platforms and schools, and other groups, to”prevent and address technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including a focus on the nexus between online misogyny and radicalization to violence,” according to the White House.

“Recommendations will focus particularly on: increasing support for survivors of online harassment and abuse; expanding research to better understand the impact and scope of the problem; enhancing prevention, including prevention focused on youth; and strengthening accountability for offenders and platforms,” the White House stated.

According to the memorandum, the task force will work throughout executive departments, agencies, and offices of the federal government, “to assess and address online harassment and abuse that constitute technology-facilitated gender-based violence.”

It will do so in several methods, consisting of by establishing policies to “enhance accountability for those who perpetrate online harms,” and by broadening information collection and research study into the concern, that includes studying the psychological health results of abuse on social networks.

The task force will likewise assist in access to support services for victims of such online abuse.

Another function will be to establish “programs and policies to address online harassment, abuse, and disinformation campaigns targeting women and LGBTQI+ individuals who are public and political figures, government and civic leaders, activists, and journalists in the United States and globally.”

“One in three women under the age of 35 report being sexually harassed online. Over half of the LGBTQ+ people in our country are survivors of severe harassment,” Vice President Kamala Harris at an event to announce the task force on June 16.

“Nearly one in four Asian Americans report being called an offensive name, usually motivated by racism—being called an offensive name online,” Harris added. “And black people who have been harassed online in our country are three times more likely to be targeted, again, because of their race.

“No one should have to endure abuse just because they are attempting to participate in society,” she said.

Harris was signed up with at the occasion by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and tennis star Sloane Stephens. Stephens, a black expert tennis gamer, who advertised a gush of mad messages she got on social networks, consisting of sexist and racist abuse, after her loss at the U.S. Open.

“I’m a daughter, a sister, a wife. And I am more than an athlete, more than a label,” Stephens said. “Yet all of that is disregarded when people online seek to harass me and harm me. No matter whether I win or lose, someone online is mad, and they will make it known.”

After matches, Stephens stated, she is fretted to get her phone due to the fact that “I know what will be waiting for me when I unlock it.”

White House Cites Recent Shootings to Link Violence to Online Abuse

The White House asserted in a ‘fact’ sheet that two of the most recent mass shooting incidents in Texas and New York have “underscored the connections between online harassment, hate, misogyny, and extremist acts.”

“The tragic events in Buffalo and Uvalde have underscored a fact known all too well by many Americans: the internet can fuel hate, misogyny, and abuse with spillover effects that threaten our communities and safety offline,” the White House announcement reads.

The mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, saw the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School, on May 24. Another mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, eliminated 10 individuals and hurt 3 others at a grocery store on May 14. Both shootings were committed by 18-year-old males, authorities have stated.

“For example, the Uvalde shooter had a history of threatening girls online, yet these violent, sexualized harms and threats were dismissed and ignored when reported,” the White House said. The assertion appeared to be in reference to one case where a teenager reported the shooter, Salvador Ramos, on the social app Yubo, but said that nothing happened as a result.

Meanwhile, “The white supremacist who murdered 10 black people in Buffalo, New York, was first radicalized, by all accounts, online,” Harris said on June 16.

Officials believe that Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old that carried out the shooting in Buffalo, had written a 180-page manifesto and published it online prior to the attack. Journalists have actually not had the ability to separately validate whether the manifesto was composed by Gendron.

The manifesto author appeared to reveal support for a variety of mass shooters consisting of Brenton Tarrant who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, and live-streamed the killings on social media.

The supposed manifesto from Gendron likewise appeared to have actually been copied from a different manifesto that was composed and released online by Tarrant.

H/T The Epoch Times

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