Twitter CEO Elon Musk is no fan of adults who mutilate innocent children.

After a libertarian commenter shared an op-ed from left-wing MSNBC trashing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his policies protecting minors, Musk shared his unfiltered thoughts on what should happen to adults who force children to undergo gender reassignment surgeries or use puberty blockers.

He proposed a particularly harsh penalty for these groomers.

“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life,” Musk tweeted.

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2023

In March, Florida became the eighth state to bar children from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy after the state’s board of medicine enacted a rule regarding the matter. Dr. Hector Vila, a pediatric anesthesiologist and Florida Board of Medicine member explained that studies overwhelming show puberty blockers are not needed for minors and could lead to irreversible harm.

We’ve talked to doctors, we’ve received testimony from both sides of this issue, and the overwhelming data does not support the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

This board is not against research; it is not against care for transgender children. What the board has sought to do is to protect our children from therapies that have been shown to create irreversible harm.

Fox Business also notes there is research that suggests there is regret among transgender individuals who have medically transitioned.

Based on this evidence, it is no wonder why conservative lawmakers such as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene cheered Musk’s based response.

Why is this a controversial statement? 🤔 https://t.co/oWahydNcja

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 14, 2023

I agree.
That’s why I introduced the Protect Children’s Innocence Act that makes it a felony to perform gender affirming care on children under the age of 18. https://t.co/R3PhnqWko8

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 14, 2023

Other conservatives on social media, including Catturd, applauded Musk as well.

Thank you for this.

— Catturd (@catturd2) April 14, 2023

Spot on! It’s child abuse. Period.

— Cheryl Riley (@Cheryl4moco) April 14, 2023

Thank you for sharing your voice to protect children Elon! Your words will help many people wake up and see the irreparable harm medical transitions on minors is doing

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 14, 2023

Based and common sense-pilled

— Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) April 14, 2023

AMENNNNNN

— Anna Khait (@Annakhait) April 14, 2023

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Real journalism is under attack all over the world. Corporate hacks pushing fake news, censure, economic boycott, deplatforming – there are numerous ways to disrupt the work of the truth tellers of this world.

One of them, of course, is spying on journalists, trying to get some leverage over them, or otherwise finding some kompromat to destroy them.

A report by a Canadian Watchdog has now surfaced that reveals that a new generation of Israeli-made spyware – resembling the notorious Pegasus program – was used to target journalists in several countries.

The spyware and the related exploit – or hacking – software was created by QuaDream Ltd, owned by a former Israeli military official.

The Guardian reports:

“Security experts have warned about the emergence of previously unknown spyware with hacking capabilities comparable to NSO Group’s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures and an employee of an NGO.

Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School said the spyware, which is made by an Israeli company called QuaDream, infected some victims’ phones by sending an iCloud calendar invitation to mobile users from operators of the spyware, who are likely to be government clients. Victims were not notified of the calendar invitations because they were sent for events logged in the past, making them invisible to the targets of the hacking. Such attacks are known as “zero-click” because users of the mobile phone do not have to click on any malicious link or take any action in order to be infected.”

While cyberweapons giant NSO Group has faced growing scrutiny, the threat posed by similar and highly sophisticated hacking tools continues to proliferate.

This new hacking tool is marketed under the name ‘Reign’, and the hacking attacks that have been discovered up until now occurred between 2019 and 2021.

A phone infected with Reign, “can record conversations that happen in the proximity of the phone by controlling the phone’s recorder, read messages on encrypted apps, listen to phone conversations, and track a user’s location, according to Citizen Lab. Researchers found Reign can also be used to generate two-factor authentication codes on an iPhone to infiltrate a user’s iCloud account, allowing the spyware operator to exfiltrate data directly from the user’s iCloud.”

Apple responded: “State-sponsored attacks like those described in Citizen Lab’s report cost millions to develop, have a short shelf life, and are used to target specific individuals ‘because of who they are or what they do’. The vast majority of iPhone users will never be the victims of highly targeted cyberattacks and we will work tirelessly to protect the small number of users who are.”

Citizen Lab report identified ‘Reign’ systems operated from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ghana, Israel, Mexico, Romania, Singapore, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Uzbekistan.

In their long and very technical report, The Citizen Lab explained the new business model for the Israeli cyber weapons firms.

“QuaDream’s obscurity reflects an effort to avoid media scrutiny that was successful, for a time. Yet once QuaDream infections become discoverable through technical methods, a predictable cast of victims emerged: civil society and journalists. This pattern is a repetition of the abuses found with more notorious players, like NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, Cytrox’s Predator spyware, and before them Hacking Team and FinFisher.

QuaDream has been in business for several years, has developed sophisticated spyware products, and appears to have dealings with numerous government clients around the world. The firm has common roots with NSO Group, as well as other companies in the Israeli commercial spyware industry, and the Israeli government’s own intelligence agencies.”

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