Ofcom Online Safety Group Speaks of Protecting Women Online, Will Brett Wilson LLP Ever Listen?

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2025

Recently: Unable to Find Anyone to Work as Their Media Lawyer, Brett Wilson LLP Will Continue Losing Female Staff

3 months ago: Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK)

A few months ago Ofcom published this consultation which ended in late May. To quote:

We are consulting on draft guidance, which sets out nine areas where technology firms should do more to improve women and girls’ online safety by taking responsibility, designing their services to prevent harm and supporting their users.

The Online Safety Act 2023 makes platforms – including social media, gaming services, dating apps, discussion forums and search services – legally responsible for protecting people in the UK from illegal content and content harmful to children, including harms that disproportionately affect women and girls.

Ofcom has already published final Codes and risk assessment guidance on how we expect platforms to tackle illegal content, and we’ll shortly publish our final Codes and guidance on the protection of children. Once these duties come into force, Ofcom’s role will be to hold tech companies to account, using the full force of our enforcement powers where necessary.

But Ofcom is also required to produce guidance setting out how providers can take action against harmful content and activity that disproportionately affects women and girls, in recognition of the unique risks they face.

Our draft Guidance identifies a total of nine areas where technology firms should do more to improve women and girls’ online safety by taking responsibility, designing their services to prevent harm and supporting their users.

My wife, who suffered immense abuse online (reported as crime several times to the police, which opened several cases), picked a barrister who had worked in Ofcom for decades. She later filed a lawsuit [1, 2] as well. My wife does not do any social control media. She uses E-mail and she posts in her Web site. That's all she does. Despite this, she was subjected to illegal things (crimes committed against her) online. For merely writing about it she got SLAPPed by Brett Wilson LLP and some 'macho' barrister who had made a name for himself by working on gossip of footballers' wives.

That this very same legal team now works for the dangerous, violent Serial Strangler from Microsoft is really quite revealing. They're running out of things to sell [1, 2], so now they sell misogyny. They've essentially became like the Taliban's "burka police" or a "gun for hire" for any random misogynist out there. As long as they're willing to pay some Microsoft dollars... █