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The federal government is seeking to force social media companies to allow users to opt out of algorithms that bombard them with personalised content. Misogyny-filled feeds have been blamed for rising sexual violence, as urgent talks were held in Sydney following a spate of alleged attacks by schoolboys.

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00:02The urgency was palpable.
00:04We have a very tight agenda.
00:06As the room confronted a wave of alleged sexual violence at the hands of school boys.
00:11We've had a really disturbing few weeks.
00:14Two Scots College students were among three boys charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in
00:20Sydney's eastern suburbs.
00:22Then a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by another three boys,
00:26two of whom went to St Gregory's College in Campbelltown.
00:29We've seen an explosion of sexual assault, particularly in that under 18 age group.
00:36A group fed torrents of misogyny on social media.
00:39Online manosphere content and really in some areas harm dressed up as hell.
00:46The federal government wants to regulate the algorithms.
00:49People should be able to opt out of getting violent and degrading stuff online.
00:53Those algorithms are designed to get them into that vortex.
00:58It's also looking at criminalising strangulation in pornography, as the UK has done.
01:03Last month, a 16-year-old girl died on the northern beaches after allegedly being choked during consensual sex, but
01:10no one's been charged.
01:12What was once fringe is now becoming mainstream.
01:14University of Melbourne research has found young people are more likely than older generations to hold hostile attitudes towards women.
01:21Almost a quarter of young men think that feminism should be resisted by violence if necessary.
01:28Consent education has been mandatory in schools for years, but the acting premier says teachers can only do so much.
01:35The answer is not going to be adding more to the curriculum.
01:38I think there is real curriculum fatigue out there.
01:41Parents urge to do the teaching too when it comes to respect for women.
01:45Ingle to bother them.
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