http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...re/5297600.stm
The Government announced today that they plan to make the possession of violent porn punishable by 3 years in jail.
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Originally Posted by Auntie
It is already a crime to make or publish such images but proposed legislation will outlaw possession of images such as "material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
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This makes little sense to me, as obviously films and tv will still have things like this happening on them. They did clarify this later though.
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Originally Posted by Auntie
The new law will not target those who accidentally come into contact with obscene pornography or affect mainstream entertainment industry working within current obscenity laws.
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What I think this means in practice is that it's ok to have violence as long as it's not intended as mastubatory material. That's the only distinction I can see between porn and "mainstream entertainment industry".
I'm pretty appalled at this tbh, though not particularly surprised. The fact that the only opposition to it quoted in the article comes from a lolbertarian is also sad. It looks like another case of blaming someone's craziness on the material they have access to it and of course ignoring the existence of the many thousands who see it as a release and perhaps have been stopped from going off and strangling someone with tights because of it.
The thing is, we are talking about consenting adults (well, I assume so, I wouldn't support the distribution of this kind of thing with non-consenting adults any, ofc) who aren't actually harming anyone. Or if they are being harmed they have accepted it. The aim of the legislation simply seems to be a sop to the crowing masses and another pointless piece of restrictive legislation to take our minds off the real issues! I would kidnap and torture a government minister in order to register my dissapointment, but I have my violent porn to satiate my dark urges
