"According to the Gambling Commission, 53% of 11- to 17-year-old boys see gambling adverts online each week, compared with 31% of their female peers, while 91% of sextortion victims are male, according to the Internet Watch Foundation."
"These [influencers] may be lost souls but the people they affect are not. It is these young boys and men that we need to do more to protect by using our existing laws to prosecute hate speech."
"Strathern said MPs were not looking for equity for the sake of it but he said violence against women and girls could not be tackled if the specific harms faced by men and boys were ignored."
A group of over 60 Labour MPs has urged Ofcom to provide specific guidance to online platforms to protect men and boys from harmful influencers. They highlighted the risks posed by manosphere influencers, who expose young males to gambling, sextortion, and violent pornography. Statistics show that a significant percentage of boys encounter gambling ads online, and most sextortion victims are male. MPs emphasized the need for existing laws to address hate speech and proposed new legislation to protect young men and boys from online exploitation.
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