UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts

Campaigners label bill targeted at online pornography a ‘prurient’ intervention that will take Britain’s censorship regime back to pre-internet era

Web users in the UK will be banned from accessing websites portraying a range of nonconventional sexual acts, under a little discussed clause to a government bill currently going through parliament.

The proposal, part of the digital economy bill, would force internet service providers to block sites hosting content that would not be certified for commercial DVD sale by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

It is contained within provisions of the bill designed to enforce strict age verification checks to stop children accessing adult websites. After pressure from MPs, the culture secretary, Karen Bradley, announced on Saturday that the government would amend the bill to include powers to block non-compliant websites.

In order to comply with the censorship rules, many mainstream adult websites would have to render whole sections inaccessible to UK audiences. That is despite the acts shown being legal for consenting over-16s to perform and for adults in almost all other liberal countries to film, distribute and watch.

Pictures and videos that show spanking, whipping or caning that leaves marks, and sex acts involving urination, female ejaculation or menstruation as well as sex in public are likely to be caught by the ban – in effect turning back the clock on Britain’s censorship regime to the pre-internet era.

“Although it is nominally designed to enforce the [Obscene Publications Act] guidelines of the Crown Prosecution Service, in practice it draws far tighter lines, many of them inexplicable. The ban on female ejaculation is a particularly strange example,” he said.

The censorship regime has led to bizarre understandings between the producers and regulators, Barnett said. One is the “four-finger rule”, which limits the number of digits that can be inserted into an orifice for sexual stimulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ornography

2016 just continues to get better. Some of these are just mental suggestions, that 4 finger rule though :lol:

And it'll probably pass overwhelmingly from all parties because "We have to protect children!!!!!!!!!!11111"

Who the shitting strawberry float is this supposed to actually benefit?

Try and stop me

Irene Demova wrote:Who the shitting strawberry float is this supposed to actually benefit?

Moral crusaders, the professionally outraged and the proponents of greater control mechanisms on society. Yet you can go into any Ann Summers shop and buy many of the implements used for these activities, or improvise them from other sources.

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How do you even define 'unconvetional' sex acts?

Between consenting adults that is.

Man, those VPN companies must be overjoyed at this news.

I've never used something like Tor but I'm presuming they're relatively slow. Back to the good old days of waiting 15 minutes for a 2 minute porn clip to load.

KK wrote:Man, those VPN companies must be overjoyed at this news.

I've never used something like Tor but I'm presuming they're relatively slow. Back to the good old days of waiting 15 minutes for a 2 minute porn clip to load.

So I'll still be able to watch fisting but only if the fister has had one or more fingers amputated? :datass:

Poor Denster :cry:

1>3>4>2 wrote:This is probably to save the party further embarrassment in future from potential leaks about how much dank gooseberry fool the Tories whack off too.

MPs may be exempt from having their online activities recorded anyway, a happy coincidence.

I would love to be the fly on the wall when they discuss what is conventional and unconventional.

gooseberry fool on her tits is right out. But drinking piss is okay!

Lagamorph wrote:And it'll probably pass overwhelmingly from all parties because "We have to protect children!!!!!!!!!!11111"

Once it's put forward as legislation it would actually be a very hard (oioi) act to argue against. The tabloids will maul anyone proposing consenting adults can do as they wish, ridiculously enough.

Squinty wrote:I would love to be the fly on the wall when they discuss what is conventional and unconventional.

gooseberry fool on her tits is right out. But drinking piss is okay!

Something like this I should imagine,

I guess it's time to wheel out that old gag,

"No sex please, we're British"

It's basically saying 'female ejaculation is not normal'...and yes, most of it is women just taking a piss all over the show (seriously, some of these houses must strawberry floating stink) but it's the principal of it that is archaic.

2016/17 really has and will be the year the U.K. and USA went backwards. France and Germany will be next.

Conservatism used to mean 'not interfering in people's lives'...once. Now everyone just want to interfere all the bloody time.

Anyone know a good fast VPN?

Does anyone know when these laws will come into effect.

Also tunnelbear.

This plus snoopers charter will be fun.

Falsey wrote:Try and stop me

I wonder if they'll try and stop people from looking at porn through vpn's. I take it this is just civil law so it'd only be fines.

UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts

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