The United Nations reports that the social media environment has become increasingly toxic & hostile to women. As the report concludes:
'Gender rights rollback is both enabled & exacerbated by technologies which – by design – amplify misogynistic hate speech for profit'...
The Q, is what can be done; it is anti-democratic for Govt.s to shrug & claim that Big Tech needs to sort out its own mess... we're waaaay beyond that being a viable solution!
@ChrisMayLA6 It is very worrying that the western world completely ignores young men. They can be just as ill treated, often worse, as women online.
But as always in the west, the hate is strong against young white men. Often are they told since birth, they have no value, and that only women have a right to work. Not strange at all, that most of the shootings are done by men who lost all hope.
Hmmm... that would not be my reading; I'd see it more as a class issue; the regular degrading & marginalisation of young male working class existence....
@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm. After thinking about it, I think I agree that the children of the elite are excluded, but besides that, I see a lot of young experiencing this, regardless of if they are working class or middle class.
In fact, I would argue that the distinction working class and middle class has lost all meaning in modern sweden (which is where I made this observation). The mobility between them is to easy, and there are no barriers, also, the taxes are so high, that it is rather the
@ChrisMayLA6 working class professions that make more money if you count untaxed money, than the middle class.
In general, as an individualist, I think the class concept causes more problems that it fixes, but I think for the sake of discussion a distinction can be made between the ruling class (politicians, (some) nobility and captains of industry) and the rest of the population.
@ChrisMayLA6 In my experience, the children of the ruling class are sent to boarding schools, in sweden or abroad, and are more shielded from this, since they already have full access to their parents networks which gives them good salaries and positions of power and prestige early in life.
@h4890
and here, Sweden & the UK are much more similar