Some of us here in the UK have been trying hard for some time to resist the relentless encroaching and chipping away at our privacy and freedom, but there is so much apathy, that the government just pushes through whatever mad laws it dreams up with little or no opposition.
I even saw some dimwit on a news report, when asked about this say "Well if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", with not even a scintilla of irony.
Many of us here feel that we are banging our heads against a brick wall, the simple truth is people don't care and won't until it is too late.
Take the "dangerous pictures act", a law banning so-called extreme pornography, because few even looked twice at this law, we now have a situation where a citizen of this country can be locked up, for up to three years (the police wanted 10 years), for looking, in private, at images of consenting adults taking part in perfectly legal activities.
Time and again we told people about this law, but they just shrugged and said "It won't affect us" or "This is so mad it will never get passed", but now it has been passed and it is too late, the very same people are panicking and crying about it.
It is much the same with each new attack on our rights. Ten years ago Labour signed up to the European Human rights charter, the closest thing we have to a bill of rights and ever since they have been undermining it at every opportunity. Most people just shrug and say "it wont affect me" I really fear for the future here, no one not even the opposition parties are seriously opposing the infringements of our rights. It seems there is nowhere left to turn.
I think we are talking about the same law Threni.
The "Dangerous pictures act" is just a sarcastic description of the law banning the owning of images of extreme porn, which the government claims will cause the viewer to commit crimes - hence "dangerous pictures".
"In the UK our moral guardians are trying to protect us from harm by criminalising the writing of descriptions of violent sexual acts."
First I've heard of this, I know of the Dangerous pictures act, but dangerous writing? Where did you hear this?
Well, there has been a great deal of research into this. The U.S. surgeon generals office reported that they could find no causative effect between viewing pornography, including violent pornography, and sex crime. That report was part of the Meese commission review, but was suppressed, because it did not fit the needs of the Reagan Government. In the U.K. we had a Royal commission headed by Lord Williams which came to exactly the same conclusion, but this did not fit the needs of the then Thatcher government and so was repressed.
In truth there has been over sixty years worth of research into the causative effects between various forms of entertainment including porn, violent porn, videos, films, T.V. and games, but not one has been able to show credible evidence that viewing leads to doing, at least in adults.
At one time some researchers thought they had found the 'holy Grail' and could prove that looking at violent porn made the viewer measurably more aggressive. Unfortunately, for them, it was later shown that any activity that raised the heart rate and body temperature, including riding a bike or aerobics, would not only increase aggression in the short term, but all emotional responses, including kindness and generosity.
There is plenty of evidence out there, just not the kind the repressers want.
Actually, the law bans the owning of fictional images of violent sex to and deliberately so.
While it is perfectly legal to to role-play having sex at the point of a weapon (of you choice) and it is also legal to have sex with someone pretending to be dead, from now owning images of these legal acts will get you up to three years lock-up.
Actually, the 'snuff' mentioned this created by Vladimirovich Kuznetsov, was found to be yet more police gullability. It was staged, not real as the Italian police claimed. Kuznetsov got eleven years for child abuse.
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Some of us here in the UK have been trying hard for some time to resist the relentless encroaching and chipping away at our privacy and freedom, but there is so much apathy, that the government just pushes through whatever mad laws it dreams up with little or no opposition. I even saw some dimwit on a news report, when asked about this say "Well if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", with not even a scintilla of irony. Many of us here feel that we are banging our heads against a brick wall, the simple truth is people don't care and won't until it is too late. Take the "dangerous pictures act", a law banning so-called extreme pornography, because few even looked twice at this law, we now have a situation where a citizen of this country can be locked up, for up to three years (the police wanted 10 years), for looking, in private, at images of consenting adults taking part in perfectly legal activities. Time and again we told people about this law, but they just shrugged and said "It won't affect us" or "This is so mad it will never get passed", but now it has been passed and it is too late, the very same people are panicking and crying about it. It is much the same with each new attack on our rights. Ten years ago Labour signed up to the European Human rights charter, the closest thing we have to a bill of rights and ever since they have been undermining it at every opportunity. Most people just shrug and say "it wont affect me" I really fear for the future here, no one not even the opposition parties are seriously opposing the infringements of our rights. It seems there is nowhere left to turn.
I think we are talking about the same law Threni. The "Dangerous pictures act" is just a sarcastic description of the law banning the owning of images of extreme porn, which the government claims will cause the viewer to commit crimes - hence "dangerous pictures".
"In the UK our moral guardians are trying to protect us from harm by criminalising the writing of descriptions of violent sexual acts." First I've heard of this, I know of the Dangerous pictures act, but dangerous writing? Where did you hear this?
Well, there has been a great deal of research into this. The U.S. surgeon generals office reported that they could find no causative effect between viewing pornography, including violent pornography, and sex crime. That report was part of the Meese commission review, but was suppressed, because it did not fit the needs of the Reagan Government. In the U.K. we had a Royal commission headed by Lord Williams which came to exactly the same conclusion, but this did not fit the needs of the then Thatcher government and so was repressed.
In truth there has been over sixty years worth of research into the causative effects between various forms of entertainment including porn, violent porn, videos, films, T.V. and games, but not one has been able to show credible evidence that viewing leads to doing, at least in adults.
At one time some researchers thought they had found the 'holy Grail' and could prove that looking at violent porn made the viewer measurably more aggressive. Unfortunately, for them, it was later shown that any activity that raised the heart rate and body temperature, including riding a bike or aerobics, would not only increase aggression in the short term, but all emotional responses, including kindness and generosity.
There is plenty of evidence out there, just not the kind the repressers want.
Actually, the law bans the owning of fictional images of violent sex to and deliberately so. While it is perfectly legal to to role-play having sex at the point of a weapon (of you choice) and it is also legal to have sex with someone pretending to be dead, from now owning images of these legal acts will get you up to three years lock-up.
Actually, the 'snuff' mentioned this created by Vladimirovich Kuznetsov, was found to be yet more police gullability. It was staged, not real as the Italian police claimed. Kuznetsov got eleven years for child abuse.