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Possession of Violent Pornography Outlawed in UK
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is reporting that possession of violent pornography is now punishable by three years in prison. This decision was handed down in response to a campaign waged by a grieving mother who lost her daughter to someone obsessed with violent pornography." From the article: "Shaun Gabb, director of the anti-censorship organization the Libertarian Alliance, said: 'If you are criminalizing possession then you are giving police inquisitorial powers to come into your house and see what you've got, now we didn't have this in the past.'"
Well actually this is off the back of a 30 month campaign, 50,000 signature petition and many MPs backing the mother of a victim of a deranged murderer whoes pasttime was viewing violent porn on the internet of the exact manner in which he killed this womans daughter. Its right there in the linked article.
This is anything BUT kneejerk legislation based on media headlines, its coming up from grassroots victims of crime.
Violent Pornography?
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Umm... no it isn’t. FTFA:
The government have announced plans to make it illegal. So it may happen. But also, the civil liberties types have plenty of time to raise objections, get the sentence changed, get exemptions added etc... which has got to be a good thing.
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I think your forgetting that in the UK its a criminal offence not to give the police your passwords, meaning that if you do hide things like this in encrypted volumes / images then you've got to give the police your passwords when they ask for them meaning that either way your going to jail ...
> Pictures don't cause people to commit crimes.
Exactly. To paraphrase Frank Zappa (who spent a lot of time fighting the censorship of music lyrics):
"There are more love songs than any other kind. If music could alter people's behavior, we'd all love each other."
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It actually is in quite a few places. The wiki entry on it discusses its legality in many countries. Heck, even the image being used for the entry gets a lot of heated discussion because some versions of it weren't legal for some Wikipedia users.
For that matter, guess they could go after some of the classics then too like The Stones' Midnight Rambler .
Heck guess we could nix Brown Sugar too:
"Scarred old slaver know's he's doing alright...hear him whip the women just around midnight..."
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Of course British politicians are well placed to discuss the more sordid end of the sexual response curve...... Like Stephen Milligan MP (Conservative) (died with orange in his mouth, stockings on his legs and a plastic bag over his head) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Milligan Or Mark Oaten MP (Liberal Democrat) (married man. sex with rent boys) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oaten#Scandal_an d_resignation
Or David Mellor MP (Conservative) (ugly bloke, sex with hooker in Chelsea shirt) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mellor#Scandal
Or Michael Brown MP (Conservative) (Sex with underage boy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_(UK_pol itician)
Or Ron Davies (Labour) (Caught cruising for gay sex. Claimed he was looking for badgers)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Davies
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Heres a link to the PDF of the paper this article arises from. It's very vaugue as to how the law will be applied and surprisingly actually shows that the majority of respondents were against the proposal. This is not law yet, no by a long way, the govenment is leaving itself plenty of wiggle room to drop this if it becomes unpopular or difficult.
Actually it's not the dog's fault it's a danger. It's the owner. Problem is most people who treat thier dogs like crap own pit-bulls because they have a rageing hard-on fantasy about a dangerious dog. Every dog breed has the exact same potential to be dangerious as the next dog (except when heavy inbreeding occurs) . I don't personaly own a pit-bull nor will I ever (I'm a basset-hound person), but I have numerious friends and family that own them. Guess what kind of environment the ones that are a bit "mean" live in? People who mistreat thier dogs. Not to mention the ones that own more than one kind of dog end up acting the same way. Dogs are nothing more than children. How you treat them is exactly how they will act.
As something else to think of guess what kind of dogs I've been attacked by? The stupid ass small poodle & toy dogs. I've seen very few of those who have not been mean little fuckers I don't end up kicking because they try to bite me. Do I blame the dog? Not really...those dogs are often times so imbread and thier owners usualy end up knowing jack shit about them they can't be anything, but a pain in the ass to strangers.
I live in Denmark. There are no guns. There is virtually no crime. That's the ideal scenario, not a "peace through guns" one. Now, I know it's complicated to change society in the USA, but it has to start some way. Or do you want to have a country full of gun toting rednecks till the end of times?
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RTFA: the law doesn't ban all violent pornography, only "material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
All joking aside, it is precisely this attitude that seeking out sex is a "perverted" thing to do, that provides the incentive and the ammunition for folks like US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to make consensual adult imagery illegal, taking away resources from child pornography investigation units to go after adult pornography. And that was a year ago. How it doesn't create more of an uproar still baffles me.
Getting back to the current topic, keep in mind that much "violent" pornography is acted, not real violence. Here in the States, we call porn with real violence "snuff" films, and they are already illegal here as they depict real, intentional violence against the actors for the sake of creating the film.