⚡️🇺🇦 Hear muffled bang of grenade in footage above from Kiev courthouse, where man reportedly chucks 3 grenades before pulling out pistol and taking control of building.

Prisoner was allegedly in holding cell, awaiting trial for throwing explosive near Ukrainian Parliament building in 2015.

UPDATE: Prisoner has allegedly taken 2 guards hostage and is holed up in building restroom.

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FREE SPEECH AIN'T FREE: It's not just the Irish for whom any remaining free speech may soon become a thing of the past.

Ofcom - UK's communications regulator - is introducing the Online Safety Bill in the UK, that may end all encrypted messengers.

🇬🇧 The government argues the Bill is only to require messengers to scan for child sex abuse material in end-to-end encrypted messages. However Meredith Whittaker, CEO of Signal messenger, sounds the alarm that all personal devices may be required to carry spyware that will send your messages to a database, which determines whether or not they're allowed to be sent!

Unfortunately, the irony of what she perceives to be the greatest threat is lost on Meredith - 00:22 "Putin could get in the backdoor" - when it's your own government inching in on you, lady!

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