I was listening to a report on this earlier. Grim stuff. I worry for young people having to grow up in this kind of environment.
Online communities known as “Com” networks represent an “emerging threat”, reports of which have increased sixfold in the UK from 2022 to 2024. The agency’s analysts estimate that millions of messages in the UK and other western countries have been shared relating to sexual and physical abuse.
The NCA director general, Graeme Biggar, said: “These groups are not lurking on the dark web, they exist in the same online world and platforms young people use on a daily basis.
If they aren’t using E2E encryption then the platforms are seriously dropping the ball, again.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
See also: Adolescence and the backlash to that show.
Zip2@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I hadn’t heard about the backlash! Who is that from, the ones portrayed by the program?
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Go poke your head into r/mensrights or similar. Basically everyone complaining that the show is going to get them cancelled or that the show misrepresented them or similar. It’s pretty rare to see any comments suggesting the show is provoking introspection. Instead it is defend and attack.
Trilobyte@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Pretty much, yes. Whenever an article pops up on my MSN news feed about that program I go straight to the comments and the people commenting parrot off the same sort of talking points the program is against. I’m almost certain they’ve never actually watched it.