Extreme pornography law: they tried to sound sane but the law is mad

[ciphergoth]

emarkienna has published an analysis of the new extreme pornography law. They tried to sound sane and reasonable during the consultation process, but the law they've come up with is censorious madness. You can explicitly get three years inside for copying a segment from a legally-bought Hollywood movie into your porn folder.

Backlash are campaigning against the new law.

Aaaarghg.

Comments

Re: Because of the Internet

[djm4]

It is NOT aimed at consensual S and M in nice British middle class households - they had enough trouble with that over Spanner. do you think the UK govt really wants another embarrassing ECHR case?

The SMers in the Spanner case took their case to the highest authority possible and lost. Consensual S & M is, with the ECHR's blessing, a potentially criminal activity in the UK. I don't find that especially reassuring.

Re: Because of the Internet

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Whether they lost of not it cost the UK huge ammounts of money and enormous amounts of international and domestic embarrassment - they will try to avoid that at all costs again.

Re: Because of the Internet

[djm4]

Well, I just plain don't believe that, especially since that doesn't seem to stop them when it comes to mistreating refugees or asylum seekers. But I don't think there's any hope of either of us convincing the other on that point.