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Source: AFP
The Netflix play "Adolescence", which has sparked wide statement astir the toxic and misogynistic influences young boys are exposed to online, volition beryllium shown successful UK secondary schools, the premier minister's bureau and the streaming elephantine said Monday.
"We're incredibly arrogant of the interaction the amusement has made, and are delighted to beryllium capable to connection it to each schools crossed the UK," said Anne Mensah, vice president of UK contented astatine Netflix, adding that the four-part bid had "helped articulate the pressures young radical and parents face".
The announcement came arsenic Prime Minister Keir Starmer met the creators of the amusement alongside charities and young radical astatine his Downing Street bureau to sermon the issues raised successful the series.
Starmer said that helium had watched the play -- successful which a 13-year-old lad stabs a miss to decease aft being radicalised online -- with his ain teenage children and that it had "hit location hard".
"It's an important inaugural to promote arsenic galore pupils arsenic imaginable to ticker the show," helium said. Minors aged 11 to 18 volition beryllium capable to spot the bid astatine their secondary schools.
"Openly talking astir changes successful however they communicate, the contented they're seeing, and exploring the conversations they're having with their peers is captious if we are to decently enactment them successful navigating modern challenges, and woody with malign influences," Starmer added.
"Adolescence", which was released connected March 13, follows the aftermath of the schoolgirl's fatal stabbing, revealing the unsafe influences boys are subjected to online.
The bid had 24.3 cardinal views successful its archetypal 4 days, making it Netflix's apical amusement for the week of March 10-16, according to the entertainment manufacture mag Variety.
Maria Neophytou of the UK's children's foundation NSPCC said the gathering had been a "critical milestone".
"The online satellite is being polluted by harmful and misogynistic contented which is having a nonstop interaction connected the improvement of young people's reasoning and behaviours. This cannot beryllium allowed to continue," she said.
Source: AFP
