Ofcom is attempt to backtrack and downplay their efforts because they triggered the Streisand Effect1 and brought more attention to men walking away.
Once young men have the scales removed from their eyes, there's no unseeing it and they're not going back.
1 - The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
“Streisand effect”
I often joke that if a video is not banned by Youtube I do not want to look at it.
Lol.