“Many of the participants expressed a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness. They showed particular sensitivity to situations they perceived as unjust or discriminatory. This extended to issues specifically concerning men.”
No shit.
It comes after rising violence against women and girls (VAWG) in England and Wales. Data published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in July 2024 found that about 3,000 VAWG offences a day were recorded by the police in 2022-23, an increase of 37% since 2018, with one in every 12 women a victim each year.
Separate expert studies have found some evidence that the language of the manosphere can escalate into physical violence. A submission to parliament by a group of UK academics cited cases in which incels had gone on to commit offline acts of violence, including Elliot Rodger in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and Jake Davison in Plymouth, England, in 2021.
The Ofcom study involved 38 men, and more misogynistic men may have declined to take part. Some potential recruits refused to take part, considering the government-appointed regulator to be part of the “mainstream”. Perhaps the most impressionable group, boys under 16, were also not included.
Oh so this study is completely worthless then.
Has anyone heard of Ofcom before? Are they credible? None of their findings passes the gut check.
Ofcom is the UK gov department in charge of radiowave licencing. Equivalent of US FCC
As a ham I have a licence with them. But so dose all your WiFi equipment and phones have to meet there rules. Licencing can apply to a person, org or a device design depending on the frequencies used.
Every nation that is a member of the ITU. International telecommunications union.(Almost all nations) Has to have an agency enforcing agreed to rules.
So credibility on that subject yes. Very much.
But on mental effect on groups of people. They have 0 expertise. And given the numbers used (38men able to self exclude based on subject of study). None on statistical analysis.
Id only trust them on radio wave propergation, electromagnetic effect and licencing laws.
Here my own experience talking to folks working there. Get past the telephone handlers and they are real experts.
It’s incorrect to say they have 0 expertise. One of their main functions is to set and enforce content standards, and a lot of research is done connected to that.
As a ham I have a licence with them.
What’s this about? Or are you telling porkies?
Look up amature radio. Or ham as the nickname.
I am M0IXP
TIL 🙏
Some fun facts.
Much of the modern phone tech you use now. Is based on principals amature radio experimenters developed.
The hobby has been an active part of electromagnetic research since the 1920s. And while all the protocols etc are upgraded to fit with commercial use. The basic theories were discovered by hobbyists.
We have even funded a few Leo satellites over the years. Many were launched in the 90 to early 2000. As Russia was using disabled ICBMs to send them up while meeting disarmerment treaties. US spent a fortune Russia profited from Thier disarmament.
Look up amsat AO 51. I watched that launch (via video link) in 2004 but that and a small donation to it is my only sat input. I tend to play with HF or Shortwave radio more. Getting signals to travel world wide with 0 inferstructure and often low power is more my interest.
But amature radio covers such a wide field nowadays. Most with some technical interest can find something they like.
If you look up M0IXP it was not valid in 2004. I had a US licence under KG4ZGG from the FCC then. And have had 2 other between. M0IXP is mine for life now. As it is a level where much of the world either let’s me use it(lookup CEPT and amature radio). Or will issue a new local call sign if I show them the UK one (reciprocal licence agreements with the UK in non CEPT member nations). The others were all at lower levels. This leads many full licence holders to use the hobby as an excuse to travel. Tend to call them DXpeditions when groups do it.
Yes this is a vain attempt to sell my hobby. Ignore if not interested. But it’s good to find newbies if folks are. It can also be way cheaper now then it was when I started. Due to hams developing SDR and huge commercial use of that tech. But cheaper is not always cheap. Depending on what type of radio interests you.
Yep just like the wider population, who would have guessed - just everyone living in the world and not looking for a sensational headline.
