The Adolescence series has topped Netflix’s most sedda list and brought new life into the discussion about how the incel culture is spread among teenage boys on social media and the deadly consequences it can lead to.
– The reactions are very much about what to do to access this problem, how should young boys have a better relationship with social media and better relationship with the adult world, says Sweden’s Radio London correspondent Pontus Mattson in SVT’s Aktuellt.
The series should, among other things, be discussed at the Prime Minister’s weekly questioning time in the British plenary hall, where Keir Starmer told me that he has seen the series with his teenage children.
– It is important that we deal with this growing problem throughout Parliament, said The Prime Minister during last week’s question time.
The series screenwriter says in an interview with the BBC that he wants the series to be shown in schools and in parliament.
– It’s crucial, because this will be good, says Jack Thorne.
Several acts of violence in Britain
The issue has been on the wallpaper for a long time and in recent years the country has been hit by a number of acts of violence where the perpetrator’s radicalization has begun on social media. Pontus Mattson raises, among other things, this summer’s act of violence in Southport where a 17-year-old boy murdered three young girls.
He also raises the person who was pushed through last week after a 19-year-old man murdered his mother, sister and brother and then planned to carry out a school massacre at his old middle school. The man was stopped by the police before he could carry out the school massacre.
– Both of these boys had been radicalized at home in front of the computer. Looked a lot at the internet, at violent element of elements and it is something that is often highlighted in the debate, says Mattson.
Proposal for prohibition
Over the years, there have been a number of different suggestions on how to deal with the problem where of one has been about banning social media for young people during 16 years.
Something that the government is currently not prepared to do, says Pontus Mattson, who believes that the discussion has just begun.
– Many people drive that issue, not least parents of children who have been killed in various horrible knife and a lot of politicians, he says.