Ofcom
Ofcom is the independent regulator for the communications industries in the United Kingdom, regulating broadcasting (TV, radio, and on-demand), telecommunications (phones, broadband, and postal services), radio spectrum, and, under the Online Safety Act, online services.www.ofcom.org.uk
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Oct 29, 2026
Raising Boys in the Age of the Manosphere: How to Counter Online Misogyny
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8:50MaryhanHOST
The content has learned how to find them first.
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8:54MaryhanHOST
And Ofcom's 2026 figures found that 73% of children aged 11 to 17... had encountered potentially harmful content in the past month.
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9:05MaryhanHOST
Over a third simply by scrolling.
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9:08MaryhanHOST
And school leaders surveyed by University College London described the tropes moving off screens and into the school playgrounds.
Inside the secret world of celebrity Airbnbs…
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40:34Alice BrineHOST
kicked him out as soon as they found out they couldn't platform him.
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40:36Alice BrineHOST
So Omar from Big Brother got a formal warning in the diary room after receiving over 7,000 Ofcom complaints.
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40:44Alice BrineHOST
Welcome back, Beth.
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40:45Alice BrineHOST
I know, but the way it was delivered, I think was really, really weird because basically what has happened is there's clearly signs of coercive control manipulation and like emotionally abusive behavior coming from him.
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42:25Jamie EastHOST
If you're going to bollock someone, bollock them.
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42:28Alice BrineHOST
Bollock them properly.
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42:28Alice BrineHOST
I found the whole thing really weird, but it was 7,138 Ofcom complaints, which compared to Joey Essex, Joey Essex and Sean Stone on Love Island only got 1,800.
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42:38Alice BrineHOST
So it is a shit ton.
Is TV news still fit for purpose? Celebrity media injunction and Blue Planet III returns
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9:40Krishnan Guru-MurthyGUEST
That viewers can understand and know and they know which brands they trust online.
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9:46Krishnan Guru-MurthyGUEST
And they know that because we voluntarily comply all our online content with Ofcom's code.
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9:53Lewis GoodallGUEST
In which case, if you're so confident about it, Chris, why? I mean, you don't work for the BBC, but why is the director general of this organisation's answer to all of this? to basically ask for an algorithmic attention subsidy for his organisation's journalism, if he's so confident about the sort of journalism that it is and it getting ivory.
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10:08Lewis GoodallGUEST
Well, I
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12:47Lewis GoodallGUEST
So Lewis, before you give us
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12:48Ros AtkinsHOST
an example though, I want you to unpack that so people listening know exactly what you're meaning.
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12:52Ros AtkinsHOST
So you mean the way that Ofcom currently regulates broadcast news needs to evolve.
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12:56Ros AtkinsHOST
It's a bit too strict for him.
HANNAH WALTERS • 'Amazing Grace' coming soon... (Matriarch Productions / A Thousand Blows / Adolescence) #693
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14:17Scroobius PipHOST
And we did a whole campaign with Stammer a few years back, the British stammering organisation, about the lack of representation.
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14:24Scroobius PipHOST
And like Ofcom looked at it all and said, yeah, there's a huge, it's being left behind in the representation of disability, of gender, of all these different things.
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14:32Scroobius PipHOST
Stammering really isn't there.
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14:34Scroobius PipHOST
They did like a YouGov survey, and I think one in 20 people could name a character in TV or film who stammers, and less than that could name more than one.
Syndey's Transport Expo Extravaganza, Revisiting Wales Station Childhood Home, A Generous Railway Photographer and The Railway 'Radio Hams'
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56:33speaker_18GUEST
And we're using GB0RVR.
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56:36speaker_18GUEST
We have a special license from Ofcom to operate on the location for the day.
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56:40speaker_18GUEST
So we apply for that beforehand.
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56:42Alasdair StewartHOST
Is this a sort of a national event of a similar radio station set up for today? Yes,
Andy Burnham's first 100 days: All talk or real change?
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47:43Frank McKennaHOST
And someone comes along and goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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47:46Frank McKennaHOST
Whoa, Ofcom have put these rules in place.
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47:50Frank McKennaHOST
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, John Sopel and Emily Maitlis, they ain't happy with McKenna and Maguire spending a million pounds.
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47:58Frank McKennaHOST
No, no, no.
Has Big Brother Gone Too Far? + Elon Musk’s Unwatchable AI Odyssey
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3:45Benedict TownsendHOST
And how do you think they're doing on that metric this time?
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3:48Hannah TownsendHOST
There is a character in there called Omar and there have been like hundreds of Ofcom complaints for coercive control behaviour because he's kind of in a relationship with this girl.
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3:58Hannah TownsendHOST
There's a lot of people in there.
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3:59Hannah TownsendHOST
There's a character called Rochelle who there was a quadruple amputee and she kind of went up to her and said, I've been scared my whole life of people like you.
#63 – Neil Oliver Interview Professor Angus Dalgleish
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14:30Neil OliverHOST
I think with yourself, we used the phrase turbo cancer.
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14:36Neil OliverHOST
And Ofcom were very upset about the use of that term at the time.
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14:41Neil OliverHOST
But it's certainly interesting to me to hear that you and your colleagues, you know, are still hyperprogression or turbo cancer, but you're still describing the same phenomenon.
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14:52Neil OliverHOST
So as well as people's immune systems becoming exhausted, there was another problem besides.
KDP S11 E5: !!!!! Is Not A Sentence
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30:34EllieHOST
OK, we need to just stay away from Man City, Alexis.
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30:44EllieHOST
Dancing a salsa with lifts we can't properly describe without using some tier two Ofcom words.
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30:49EllieHOST
It's Danny Dyer and her partner Nikita.
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30:52EllieHOST
And yet it was strangely polite.
56: Looking behind massive AI infrastructure investments, and crunch time for floating wind
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1:42Matthew MageeHOST
Online service providers would have to more closely control the extent to which children can access body stigma or depression content on their platforms under proposals put forward by the UK's online safety regulator.
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1:56Matthew MageeHOST
Ofcom has recommended a recategorisation of body stigma and depression content under the UK's Online Safety Act with a view to ensuring greater protections for children against that kind of content.
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2:07Matthew MageeHOST
It would be recategorised to priority content that is harmful to children.
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2:13Matthew MageeHOST
Online safety regulation expert Gemma Erskine said the difficulty with categories like body stigma and depression content is that they're not easy to define.
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