‘That is ridiculous!’ Bev Turner in heated row over online abuse – ‘Who are they to say what is misogyny?’

GB News host Bev Turner found herself embroiled in a heated row over the Government’s planned crackdown on online abuse as she asked: “Who are they to say what is misogyny?”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that misogyny will now be treated as extremism under new Government plans.

Labour has also been clamping down on what people post on social media, with some facing prison sentences for inciting violence.

Speaking on GB News, Bev said: If you are going to go and stab women in the street. Be arrested. Throw away the key, as far as I’m concerned. If you’re Andrew Tate online saying things which might you might find unpalatable, I want to hear them.”

Labour commentator Matthew Laza said: “I think saying things are unpalatable is one thing.

“I think saying things that incite people to violence is another thing. So we’ll have to see exactly where in the proposed changes the line is drawn.”

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He added: “I think what they’re trying to do is say we’re not going to sort of criminalize everyday misogyny, as it were, but we’re going to clamp down on the most egregious examples, which we think are basically inciting people to violence.”

Bev angrily responded: “Who are they to say, what is misogyny? Who are they?”

She explained: “There’s this trend in America, particularly at the moment of traditional wives, and it often has a very Christian undercurrent.

“Women who want to stay at home, have children, be there when their husband comes home at the end of the day, dresses, wearing a nice dress, and they’re very old.

“They are are 1950s version of what womanhood looks like, right? Cooper would say that is misogynistic.”

She added: “I said it before, I don’t like banning things, but you need to ban smartphones for those under 16.

“You can make them socially unacceptable so that 13-year-old boys are not sitting in their room watching pornography and thinking, is that what I meant to do with a woman one day?

“Because the chances are it’s probably not. That’s what fuels misogyny.”

The review was promised in Labour’s manifesto as a new counter-extremism strategy.

It is expected to be completed by October.

It is one of a number of policy reviews Labour has announced since coming to power.