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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.'"
because before viewing the violent porn, this guy was obviously a choir boy...
No, and I don't think that porn (or violent video games) MAKES someone violent. But it does "feed the beast." OTOH, our brilliant supreme court in the US thinks it okay to have kiddie porn if it just LOOKS like kiddie porn. If it's animation or not really an under-aged student, that okay. But tell me that DOESN'T fuel the pedophile to eventually want to go out and get some real action on a kid?
What will the law do? Well it WILL allow charges to be brought without having to wait for some freak to practice his homemade snuff film on an innocent victim.
People complain about government stepping in, but the population at large does nothing to reign in their own vices or show SOME measure of standards as to what society will put up with.
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
or terrified mothers or teatotaling mothers. They are responsible for such great legislation like prohibition, draconian drinking and driving laws. If they're afraid of freedom, they should just lock themselves up.