The Office of Communications (Ofcom), a regulator in charge of enforcing UK's sweeping censorship law, the Online Safety Act, is bringing up the issue of misogyny, specifically in terms of online harassment, to pile on more pressure on social media companies.
Ofcom issued a press release explaining what it intends to "tackle" here, by means of censorship.
Ofcom wants to extend this to public figures such as journalists and politicians as well, prompting fears that members of the public might face yet another hurdle while trying to exercise their right to criticize these persons.
Ofcom's proposals as to how this might be implemented are fully in line with the wording and tactics we've been seeing over the last years in the US, and beyond, with tech companies (it now turns out, in many instances attempting to protect themselves from previous government's pressure).
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