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2014/12/03 18:33:32
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Constance Mary Whitehouse, CBE (née Hutcheson, 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was an English social activist known for her strong opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
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2014/12/03 18:57:44
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
We get (US of A) get bashed because of the 2nd Amendment
Yet so far all we get is warning on copying the content of the DVD and distributing it freely.....and you guys/girls (UK) government goes all after your porn.....
I'm hearing the death knell of porn in the UK First to go will be the strip clubs
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2014/12/03 19:45:08
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Sigvatr wrote: You can't stop people from watching them.
I wouldn't put it past the UK government to try. After all, these are the scumbags who responded to ISIS making public announcements by saying that any Brit who sees one has committed a crime.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis
2014/12/03 19:50:47
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Sigvatr wrote: You can't stop people from watching them.
I wouldn't put it past the UK government to try. After all, these are the scumbags who responded to ISIS making public announcements by saying that any Brit who sees one has committed a crime.
AlexHolker wrote: I wouldn't put it past the UK government to try. After all, these are the scumbags who responded to ISIS making public announcements by saying that any Brit who sees one has committed a crime.
What?
Do you mean anybody who watches the ISIS videos?
Source?
Here's an article about it. This one says that Scotland Yard is probably full of gak, but that doesn't excuse making the threat in the first place.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis
2014/12/03 20:22:20
Subject: Re:UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Jihadin wrote: We get (US of A) get bashed because of the 2nd Amendment
Yet so far all we get is warning on copying the content of the DVD and distributing it freely.....and you guys/girls (UK) government goes all after your porn.....
Medium of Death wrote: To what benefit is there to watching these videos? To whom would you show them?
Who cares? Why should anyone have to justify their actions in this case? You can have your personal belief that watching the videos is wrong, but that doesn't mean you get to have the government enforce that belief.
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There is no such thing as a hobby without politics. "Leave politics at the door" is itself a political statement, an endorsement of the status quo and an attempt to silence dissenting voices.
2014/12/03 21:46:13
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Sigvatr wrote: You can't stop people from watching them.
I wouldn't put it past the UK government to try. After all, these are the scumbags who responded to ISIS making public announcements by saying that any Brit who sees one has committed a crime.
The thing I find amusing (It's really not) is that you can't even say "Oh, but you can just do it in your own home" because technically S/M that causes marks is illegal, as you can't legally consent to bodily harm.
Goliath wrote: The thing I find amusing (It's really not) is that you can't even say "Oh, but you can just do it in your own home" because technically S/M that causes marks is illegal, as you can't legally consent to bodily harm.
Medium of Death wrote: To what benefit is there to watching these videos? To whom would you show them?
Who cares? Why should anyone have to justify their actions in this case? You can have your personal belief that watching the videos is wrong, but that doesn't mean you get to have the government enforce that belief.
I was genuinely curious as to why you'd need or want to watch a full beheading video? There's initial morbid curiosity but considering we've got the threat of radical Muslims using this as material for persuasion it's a fairly big deal. ISIS threatening to detonate a dirty bomb in London (lies or otherwise) and putting out highly polished videos gives them some credibility if it's allowed to be disseminated. Maybe when you start thinking about people like Anjem Choudary you could perhaps understand why it might not be appropriate to let this be so easily viewed.
This is where it starts to get into censorship, but then again conflict is always censored. Our news is censored, polished up and broadcast. It's hardly a new concept.
Goliath wrote: The thing I find amusing (It's really not) is that you can't even say "Oh, but you can just do it in your own home" because technically S/M that causes marks is illegal, as you can't legally consent to bodily harm.
Goliath wrote: The thing I find amusing (It's really not) is that you can't even say "Oh, but you can just do it in your own home" because technically S/M that causes marks is illegal, as you can't legally consent to bodily harm.
Goliath wrote: The thing I find amusing (It's really not) is that you can't even say "Oh, but you can just do it in your own home" because technically S/M that causes marks is illegal, as you can't legally consent to bodily harm.
Yay for the Conservative Government!
...That we don't have.
Wait, David Cameron isn't a Tory?
Wait, the government isn't a COALITION?
Okay...
Yay for the Conservative (and also Liberal Democrat, don't forget them( Government!
I can get the ones about strangulation, which as I understand it is actually very dangerous, and penetration with objects associated with violence (whatever that specifically means...) but the rest strike me as rather odd.
I certainly hope that if this stuff is being banned, vore* is completely illegal. I mean... come on...
*If you don't know what this is, don't look it up. You're better off not knowing.
LordofHats wrote: I can get the ones about strangulation, which as I understand it is actually very dangerous, and penetration with objects associated with violence (whatever that specifically means...) but the rest strike me as rather odd.
no penetration with objects associated with violence can mean a lot of things
more nanny state-ism from the nanny state, legislating morality one step at a time.
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2014/12/04 01:59:12
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
LordofHats wrote: I can get the ones about strangulation, which as I understand it is actually very dangerous, and penetration with objects associated with violence (whatever that specifically means...) but the rest strike me as rather odd.
no penetration with objects associated with violence can mean a lot of things
more nanny state-ism from the nanny state, legislating morality one step at a time.
Feth me that second one looks fun.
Reminds me of the the time I got my ass kicked by a friend fighting with plastic lightsabers. I was just playing, and not actually trying to hurt her or break the toy lightsabers but feth me did she take it seriously.
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2014/12/04 02:06:25
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
