Adventures in The Patriarchy™: The Anti-Manosphere Censorship Jihad Down Under

“Born out of a powerful grassroots movement — a collective call for change to dismantle rape culture and create a world free from sexual violence,” NGO Teach Us Consent is demanding that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese — who will surely cave to their demands because he’s a weak beta-cuck who never passes up a chance to abuse the population over which he lords — censor social media to restrain the epidemic of misogyny that has allegedly engulfed Australia.

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Via Teach Us Consent (emphasis added):

Dear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,

The social media feeds that once connected us are now tearing us apart.

The algorithms that curate our feeds are designed to keep us scrolling. They prioritise content that provokes the strongest emotional reactions; outrage, validation, fear, arousal and anger drive ‘successful’ posts. In turn, our feeds have become fertile ground for extreme, misogynistic content.
 
Young men and boys are being pulled into misogynistic spaces, seeking community and belonging. Studies show that dummy accounts created to imitate 16–18-year-old boys were fed extreme “manosphere” content within minutes.

Attitudes common in the “manosphere” - like undermining women' s independence and the excusing of men’s violence - are strongly linked with support for violence against women. 

The consequences are severe. Australia’s National Crisis of gender-based violence is worsening; teenage boys have overtaken adult men as the most likely perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Image-based abuse is at record highs. Extremist groups use misogynistic content for recruitment and teachers have reported rising misogyny in schools across the nation*.
 
 Men and boys aren’t benefitting from this either - it's isolating them. They're experiencing higher rates of social disconnection than ever. 

But the Government can still change the story. With the Online Safety Act in review, the time to act is now.

We urge the Government to require social media platforms to offer an option to “opt-in” to algorithms, giving us the autonomy to turn our algorithms on and off. This is about informed and affirmative consent: control over our data and our feeds. The European Union has paved the way with an “opt-out” policy but this would be a world first, bringing genuine consent to our online experiences.

This single intervention would not only help prevent gender-based violence and the mainstreaming of radicalised misogyny, but also help people vulnerable to eating disorders, self harm and prevent exposure to racism, homophobia, mis & disinformation** and other harmful content. Or, it could just be a tool for people wanting to spend less time on socials.

Australia was applauded at the United Nations General Assembly for its Social Media Minimum Age Bill. We know that’s only the first step.

Let’s continue that momentum to protect people against online harms with bold legislation that gives Australians real choice.

*Curiously, no mention of the Diversity™ elephant in the room vis-à-vis the violence-against-women “crisis” in Australia, such as it exists at all: the massive influx of migrants from cultures where women spend their lives under hoods and get flogged when the religious police catch them singing in public.

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**”Prevent exposure to misinformation,” you say?

Where have we heard that one before in recent memory?

In his CNN town hall, Biden tackled Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and misinformation and delivered some tough economic love as he discussed pressing issues. https://t.co/xweL09Pjrn

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 22, 2021

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