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Armed man seen outside UN headquarters, building surrounded by police

Armed man seen outside UN headquarters, building surrounded by police An official on condition of anonymity said the man had threatened to shoot himself in front of an entrance to the building. The United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, has been sealed after a gunman was sighted. Giving information, the officials said that a person was standing outside the headquarters with a gun. A UN spokesman told AFP that the UN headquarters had been closed due to police activity. In the pictures, armed police are seen surrounding a man standing on the sidewalk carrying something like a gun. An official on condition of anonymity said the man had threatened to shoot himself in front of an entrance to the building. After which the road leading to the UN Headquarters was closed to traffic, but the meetings inside were not immediately affected. The New York Police Department said on Twitter that due to the police investigation, avoid the area of ​​42nd Street and 1st Avenue except for emergency vehicles. "Big Brother" Artificial intelligence with a Bolshevik taste What ethical rules is Vladimir Putin talking about? While the search for prohibited material was up to the police or pro-government informants, the authorities are turning to artificial intelligence tools to quickly browse through millions of posts daily. A woman in clothes revealing large parts of her body in front of the church. Single mother criticized Russian lawmakers and President Vladimir Putin. A saxophonist criticized the commemoration of World War II. These are some of the thousands of Russians who have appeared in court over their social media posts in the past year. Activists from digital rights groups say this could soon turn into a flood after government authorities resort to using artificial intelligence to monitor the Web. "We expect that all content posted on social media (in Russia) will be monitored by automated programs," said Sarkis Darbinyan, director of the legal department of Moscow-based digital rights group Roskomsvoboda. "This will be particularly bad for the young people who will be put up with red flags and will be prosecuted for publishing various materials," he said by phone. Russia has passed a raft of legislation in recent years to strengthen what it calls its "sovereignty" on the Internet and tighten control over cyberspace. Scrutiny of what people are saying online has become part of a broader crackdown that has seen Moscow squeeze foreign tech companies The increased scrutiny of what people say online has become part of a broader campaign that has seen Moscow pressure foreign technology companies such as Twitter and Facebook to remove content it considers illegal and block opposition websites and news outlets. The authorities say the surveillance systems are meant to tackle crime, but rights groups fear they can be used to stifle dissent and stifle freedom of expression. "We are witnessing a targeted attack by governments around the world with draconian laws targeting freedom of expression and privacy online," said Likhita Banerjee, researcher in Amnesty International's technology and human rights division. Roscoe Manadzor, the regulator for government communications, did not respond to a request for comment. Continuous monitoring Since 2017, Perm-based technology company SosLabs has been providing law enforcement agencies in dozens of regions with software that its director, Yevgeny Rabchevsky, said can process 1 billion social media pages and instant messaging conversations per day. He added that the police use the tool to detect and prevent crimes including terrorism, child pornography, drug-related crimes and "destructive cultures," a term he said referred to issues such as "child suicide propaganda" and advocacy of violence. "The authorities use the product to assess social tensions, identify problematic issues of importance...and adjust their activities," he said, adding that the company had recently developed an artificial intelligence tool to monitor social media activity during protests. Last month, the center said The Study and Monitor Network of Youth Environment, a non-governmental organization founded on behalf of Putin, has developed an artificial intelligence tool to screen social media for what it considers dangerous and socially disruptive content. The tool was designed under a scheme run by the Youth Affairs Agency, which did not respond to requests for comment. The spokesperson instead referred to an interview in Forbes Russia in which the head of the NGO, Denis Zavarzin, said its system was "constantly monitoring" about 1.5 million accounts. Research shows that more Russian AI-powered electronic surveillance devices are in the pipeline. Official documents seen by Reuters in September also show that authorities are developing a new monitoring system that automatically searches for banned content on social networks and the messaging app Telegram. Two additional tools are also planned, one to search for visual information and the other to defend against information threats. The three systems are expected to be operational next year, with draft budget proposals released in September showing that Russia could spend 31 billion rubles ($416 million) on improving its internet infrastructure between 2022 and 2024. Electronic warfare The Internet's commitment to ethical rules stops the weariness of society There is no shortage of laws that Russian Internet users can break. In 2019, the country imposed new fines of up to 100,000 rubles on people who spread what the authorities consider false news or show "blatant disrespect" to the state. Court documents seen by Reuters show that SosLabs was used that year to bring charges of extremism against a woman over a blasphemous social media post. Other activists have been implicated over publications related to what the government considers "extremist" organizations, including the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group and groups linked to imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Damir Zinotdinov, a lawyer who heads the Human Rights Organization Agora's Net Freedom Project, said that in the past year journalists and bloggers have received more than 1,000 fines for violations of online expression. It is believed that the fines came from an automated system. "Even the text of the notice is always the same, being copied and pasted over and over," he said. According to Agora, more than 22,000 administrative cases have been filed since 2017, including displaying banned symbols and spreading extremist material, with cases approaching the record 7,000 in 2021 alone. Andrei Shabanov, a saxophonist from the city of Samara, is accused, among other things, of reviving Nazism and disrespecting the Russian military for a series of pamphlets criticizing celebrations of the Soviet victory in World War Two. In May last year he allegedly denounced Soviet authoritarianism on the Russian social networking site VKontakte, saying that the annual parade of people walking with pictures of their relatives who fought in the war was "stupid". We are in a cyber war with many people in prison and others being persecuted for their words online The 40-year-old musician also uploaded a photo of Adolf Hitler to a website dedicated to the annual parade, in a move his lawyer Alexei Labuzin said was aimed at drawing attention to what Shabanov considered "the growth of fascism in Russia." Labuzin, whose client faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison, said the case was a symbol of the shrinking space for online freedom of expression in the country. Darbinyan of Roskomsvoboda said the deployment of AI guards was more concerning with the lack of an adequate legal framework for digital rights and that the government was intent on "cleaning Russian cyberspace of all unwanted content". Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year called for the internet to be moral to stop society's weariness and criticized what he said was its role in drawing children into opposition street protests, prostitution and drugs. Saxophonist Shabanov said he refrained from posting on social media for a while after starting his case, but has now returned to his online habits, although the case is still ongoing. "I don't think that words should be something that you should be judged for," he said on WhatsApp. Stupid words or actions are not a crime.” Others were more careful. Some human rights activists urged Internet users to delete old posts, or to stay away from social media altogether. "We do not recommend our supporters to use Russian social networks in general," said Mikhail Klimarev, director of the Association for the Protection of the Internet. We do not consider it safe. We are in a cyber war, with many people in prison and others persecuted for their words online. Self-censorship is becoming more and more common practice. I notice that I myself prefer to remain silent at times.”

Armed man seen outside UN headquarters, building surrounded by police 


An official on condition of anonymity said the man had threatened to shoot himself in front of an entrance to the building.

The United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, has been sealed after a gunman was sighted. Giving information, the officials said that a person was standing outside the headquarters with a gun. A UN spokesman told AFP that the UN headquarters had been closed due to police activity.

In the pictures, armed police are seen surrounding a man standing on the sidewalk carrying something like a gun. An official on condition of anonymity said the man had threatened to shoot himself in front of an entrance to the building. After which the road leading to the UN Headquarters was closed to traffic, but the meetings inside were not immediately affected.

The New York Police Department said on Twitter that due to the police investigation, avoid the area of ​​42nd Street and 1st Avenue except for emergency vehicles.

"Big Brother" Artificial intelligence with a Bolshevik taste

What ethical rules is Vladimir Putin talking about?
While the search for prohibited material was up to the police or pro-government informants, the authorities are turning to artificial intelligence tools to quickly browse through millions of posts daily.

A woman in clothes revealing large parts of her body in front of the church. Single mother criticized Russian lawmakers and President Vladimir Putin. A saxophonist criticized the commemoration of World War II.

These are some of the thousands of Russians who have appeared in court over their social media posts in the past year. Activists from digital rights groups say this could soon turn into a flood after government authorities resort to using artificial intelligence to monitor the Web.

"We expect that all content posted on social media (in Russia) will be monitored by automated programs," said Sarkis Darbinyan, director of the legal department of Moscow-based digital rights group Roskomsvoboda. "This will be particularly bad for the young people who will be put up with red flags and will be prosecuted for publishing various materials," he said by phone.

Russia has passed a raft of legislation in recent years to strengthen what it calls its "sovereignty" on the Internet and tighten control over cyberspace.

Scrutiny of what people are saying online has become part of a broader crackdown that has seen Moscow squeeze foreign tech companies

The increased scrutiny of what people say online has become part of a broader campaign that has seen Moscow pressure foreign technology companies such as Twitter and Facebook to remove content it considers illegal and block opposition websites and news outlets.

The authorities say the surveillance systems are meant to tackle crime, but rights groups fear they can be used to stifle dissent and stifle freedom of expression.

"We are witnessing a targeted attack by governments around the world with draconian laws targeting freedom of expression and privacy online," said Likhita Banerjee, researcher in Amnesty International's technology and human rights division.

Roscoe Manadzor, the regulator for government communications, did not respond to a request for comment.

Continuous monitoring
Since 2017, Perm-based technology company SosLabs has been providing law enforcement agencies in dozens of regions with software that its director, Yevgeny Rabchevsky, said can process 1 billion
social media pages and instant messaging conversations per day.

He added that the police use the tool to detect and prevent crimes including terrorism, child pornography, drug-related crimes and "destructive cultures," a term he said referred to issues such as "child suicide propaganda" and advocacy of violence.

"The authorities use the product to assess social tensions, identify problematic issues of importance...and adjust their activities," he said, adding that the company had recently developed an artificial intelligence tool to monitor social media activity during protests. Last month, the center said

The Study and Monitor Network of Youth Environment, a non-governmental organization founded on behalf of Putin, has developed an artificial intelligence tool to screen social media for what it considers dangerous and socially disruptive content.

The tool was designed under a scheme run by the Youth Affairs Agency, which did not respond to requests for comment. The spokesperson instead referred to an interview in Forbes Russia in which the head of the NGO, Denis Zavarzin, said its system was "constantly monitoring" about 1.5 million accounts.

Research shows that more Russian AI-powered electronic surveillance devices are in the pipeline. Official documents seen by Reuters in September also show that authorities are developing a new monitoring system that automatically searches for banned content on social networks and the messaging app Telegram. Two additional tools are also planned, one to search for visual information and the other to defend against information threats.

The three systems are expected to be operational next year, with draft budget proposals released in September showing that Russia could spend 31 billion rubles ($416 million) on improving its internet infrastructure between 2022 and 2024.

Electronic warfare
The Internet's commitment to ethical rules stops the weariness of society

There is no shortage of laws that Russian Internet users can break.

In 2019, the country imposed new fines of up to 100,000 rubles on people who spread what the authorities consider false news or show "blatant disrespect" to the state.

Court documents seen by Reuters show that SosLabs was used that year to bring charges of extremism against a woman over a blasphemous social media post.

Other activists have been implicated over publications related to what the government considers "extremist" organizations, including the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group and groups linked to imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Damir Zinotdinov, a lawyer who heads the Human Rights Organization Agora's Net Freedom Project, said that in the past year journalists and bloggers have received more than 1,000 fines for violations of online expression. It is believed that the fines came from an automated system. "Even the text of the notice is always the same, being copied and pasted over and over," he said.

According to Agora, more than 22,000 administrative cases have been filed since 2017, including displaying banned symbols and spreading extremist material, with cases approaching the record 7,000 in 2021 alone.

Andrei Shabanov, a saxophonist from the city of Samara, is accused, among other things, of reviving Nazism and disrespecting the Russian military for a series of pamphlets criticizing celebrations of the Soviet victory in World War Two.

In May last year he allegedly denounced Soviet authoritarianism on the Russian social networking site VKontakte, saying that the annual parade of people walking with pictures of their relatives who fought in the war was "stupid".

We are in a cyber war with many people in prison and others being persecuted for their words online

The 40-year-old musician also uploaded a photo of Adolf Hitler to a website dedicated to the annual parade, in a move his lawyer Alexei Labuzin said was aimed at drawing attention to what Shabanov considered "the growth of fascism in Russia."

Labuzin, whose client faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison, said the case was a symbol of the shrinking space for online freedom of expression in the country.

Darbinyan of Roskomsvoboda said the deployment of AI guards was more concerning with the lack of an adequate legal framework for digital rights and that the government was intent on "cleaning Russian cyberspace of all unwanted content".

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year called for the internet to be moral to stop society's weariness and criticized what he said was its role in drawing children into opposition street protests, prostitution and drugs.

Saxophonist Shabanov said he refrained from posting on social media for a while after starting his case, but has now returned to his online habits, although the case is still ongoing. "I don't think that words should be something that you should be judged for," he said on WhatsApp. Stupid words or actions are not a crime.”

Others were more careful. Some human rights activists urged Internet users to delete old posts, or to stay away from social media altogether.

"We do not recommend our supporters to use Russian social networks in general," said Mikhail Klimarev, director of the Association for the Protection of the Internet. We do not consider it safe. We are in a cyber war, with many people in prison and others persecuted for their words online. Self-censorship is becoming more and more common practice. I notice that I myself prefer to remain silent at times.”
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