Young men and boys fuelled by “strongly misogynistic” online material are hunting for vulnerable women and girls to exploit on websites such as eating disorder and suicide forums, senior officers have said.
The threat from young males wanting to carry out serious harm is so serious that counter-terrorism officers are joining the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the hunt for them, fearing they could go on to attack or kill.
Britain’s head of counter-terrorism, Matt Jukes, told the Guardian that a joint taskforce would be set up between his force and the NCA to tackle those fixated with violence online, in what he called a “decisive moment”.
Jukes, the Metropolitan police force’s assistant commissioner for specialist operations, said the new pairing would look for those consuming online material about killings or sexual abuse. Those who might go on to plot school shootings and other mass attacks, as well as those who encouraged women and girls to harm themselves, would also fall under their remit.
I take it you’re not a girl or woman then.
It’s a crime and terrible, but it’s not terrorism (ie. Violence for political ends). Terrorism laws allow the government to do all kinds of stuff like searches without warrants and extended pre-trial detention. It’s good that they’re taking these crimes seriously, but the terrorism units should stay far away from this (and should be abolished entirely, ideally).
And go after the influencers for incitement of crimes. If what Andrew Tate and others are publishing is causing people to do this, they should be locked up.
This falls directly under current UK terrorism laws.
If you have proof otherwise I’d be interested in seeing it.
The specific actions included are:
What “political, religious, racial or ideological cause” is this advancing?
Ideological … misogynism, girls and women are less valuable than men, men must have power over women, etc etc