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Social Media Bosses Who Fail to Remove Misogynistic Content Should Face Jail, Say Peers

Bosses of social media companies could be jailed if they fail to remove “misogynistic” content, under an amendment to the Online Safety Bill. The amendment—backed by a cross-party group of lords led by former Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan—would mean companies that fail to remove abusive misogynistic content and ban repeat offenders would face fines, while…


Met Police Chief Apologies After Damning Report but Denies Force Is Institutionally Racist, Misogynist, or Homophobic

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for letting Londoners down on Tuesday after a damning review said there’s “institutional racism, misogyny, and homophobia” in the police force. But the police chief rejected the word “institutional,” saying it has become politicised and ambiguous in recent years. The review into the Met’s standards of behaviour and internal culture, released…


TikTok Bans Hate Speech Against Women—but Not Against Men

Commentary TikTok is a highly problematic app. As I have discussed elsewhere, the video-focused social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance harvests biometric data from all users in the United States, including “faceprints” and “voiceprints.” Considering there are now more than 130 million TikTok users in the United States alone, the harvesting of biometric…


‘There Is No Such Thing as a Thought Crime,’ Watchdog Tells UK Police

Police forces should stop declaring certain thoughts are crimes, the UK’s police watchdog has warned, stressing that “thought crimes” do not exist in the country’s legal system. Sir Tom Winsor, the outgoing chief inspector of constabulary, said that chief constables cannot “declare something that is not a crime to be a crime” in their force…


UK Government Rejects Bid to Make Misogyny a Hate Crime

The British government has rejected calls to make misogyny a new hate crime, arguing that it would only make it harder to prosecute sexual offences and domestic abuse cases. The House of Lords inflicted a string of defeats on the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill last month, passing a host of amendments including…


Making Misogyny Hate Crime Will Increase the Problem: Boris Johnson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday dismissed the suggestion that misogyny should be made a hate crime. The sentencing of Wayne Couzens, who abducted, raped, and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in March when he was a serving police officer, has reignited calls to add women into the protective categories listed in the hate crime law…


Taliban Takeover Amid US Negligence a Disaster for Afghani Women

Commentary Beyond the obvious rise in terrorism now almost inevitable from the disaster in Afghanistan, beyond the many friends and allies likely to suffer death or torture, beyond the disgraceful waste of twenty years of American people and treasure, more than anything, our so-called progressive leaders—in their negligence—have inadvertently instigated one of the greatest examples…


Biden Administration Negligence a Disaster for Afghani Women

Commentary Beyond the obvious rise in terrorism now almost inevitable from the disaster in Afghanistan, beyond the many friends and allies likely to suffer death or torture, beyond the disgraceful waste of twenty years of American people and treasure, more than anything, our so-called progressive leaders—in their negligence—have inadvertently instigated one of the greatest examples…


UK Police Ordered to Record Misogyny as ‘Hate Crime’

The UK government will instruct all police forces in England and Wales to record suspected misogyny as a “hate crime” in the aftermaths of the murder of Sarah Everard earlier this month. Home Office Minister Baroness Williams made the announcement on Wednesday in the House of Lords during a debate on an amendment to the…