Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK
Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK
Joke’s on them - we were sharing extreme material back in the 80s, and probably back as many centuries as there are centuries too.
See also: Adolescence and the backlash to that show.
I hadn’t heard about the backlash! Who is that from, the ones portrayed by the program?
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.
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.
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.
From what I understand they tend to use Discord, which doesn’t use E2EE and does very much cooperate with the authorities on stuff like this. A good chunk of them don’t seem particularly bright so just a matter of time while the low-hanging fruit is rounded up, but I can well imagine that the sheer volume of referrals the NCA gets for this kind of thing will take a while to get through.