Ruining our country just wasn't enough...

They had to ruin our porn too

Web users in the UK will be banned from accessing websites portraying a range of non-conventional 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.

Free speech campaigners labelled the move a “prurient” invasion into people’s sexual lives. “It should not be the business of government to regulate what kinds of consensual adult sex can be viewed by adults,” said Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of Index on Censorship.

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.

The scale of the restrictions only became apparent after the BBFC, which has since 1984 been empowered to classify videos for commercial hire or sale, agreed to become the online age verification regulator last month. A spokeswoman for the BBFC said it would also check whether sites host “pornographic content that we would refuse to classify”.

“In making this assessment, we will apply the standards that we apply to pornography that is distributed offline,” she said. “If a website fails on either of these [age verification or obscene content] tests then a notification of non-compliance will be sent to the site.”

There is no definitive list of sexual acts proscribed by the BBFC, but many adult film producers who have worked with the regulator have been forced to cut scenes, said Jerry Barnett, a free speech campaigner and author of Porn Panic!, which details the rise of a new pro-censorship movement in the UK.

“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.

Even some who back age verification questioned such strict censorship. “It’s mad that we regulate such material that aren’t even criminal acts,” said Prof Clare McGlynn, an expert on pornography laws at Durham University and co-founder of the Centre for Gender Equal Media.

“If we are regulating things like menstrual blood or urination, that’s detracting from a focus on what I think is really the harmful material, and that would be material around child sexual abuse, but also around sexual violence,” she added.

There has been no discussion of the censorship provisions of the digital economy bill by MPs during its committee stage, where debate has largely focused on age verification rules. But sources within the adult industry seemed aware.

A spokeswoman for MindGeek, one of the world’s biggest pornographic website operators, said the company expected that structures would be created to “maintain the rights of adults to view adult content”. She said it was too early to say whether the same CPS guidance would be in place for the Obscene Publications Act by the time the bill becomes law.

“Many of the sexual activities prohibited from R18 [the BBFC’s most explicit certification] are normalised and accepted aspects of healthy sexuality, and are proudly celebrated by the feminist, queer and ethical porn movements internationally,” she said.

Neither the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which drafted the bill, nor the BBFC would comment on suggestions that censorship could be relaxed. A spokesman for DCMS said the government’s aim is to ensure that the same “rules and safeguards” that exist in the physical world also apply online.

“DCMS has recently indicated that it intends to designate the BBFC as regulator and is considering the most effective way to implement these measures,” he added.

 

Censor SCUM bastards!!

One wonders if the Not606 admin team are in fact employed at BBFC.

Wouldn't surprised this piss porn fanatic

 

David Cameron ****s a pig ... but we can't watch it!

What is it with governments trying to nanny us !

Scottish government want to make booZe dearer

Coupled with this , no more tear filled angry drunken ****s to women being left like a painters radio !

 

PM for all your Pervo needs. All degeneration catered for. Great Christmas deals now available .

 

Didn't read lol soz

 

Any Celtic minded stuff?

 

No. A line has to be drawn somewhere Trevor.

 

Glad I have my own personal home made porn collection.

****s can't take that away.

 

Aye and it's because of said stash that the government have had to take these steps.

 

As if getting f....d by Rostov last night was not bad enough my favourite passtime is being severely constrained by some English c..ts in London! Now a definite 'YES' for me in the next independence referendum!

 

How was that Renato Sanches **** so much money? He's pure rotten.

 

Just shows how different individuals see football games. I thought Sanches was one of our best, if not the best (not difficult last night), of 'our' players against Rostov. In midfield Lahm and Thiago were both very poor (Scottish - sh.te). Agree with your point in general about Sanches; possibly too much expected too early a of nineteen year old with minimal experience. First rumblings of discontent with Ancelottti's selections on FCB websites appearing.

Watched Dortmund game on Tuesday; defences well on top!

Possibly being a touch cruel about my southern neighbours as I suspect 'our' Wee Frees are not too keen on any moist human contact unless it involves a white man in his fifties and a young Aryan maiden in her late teens in the missionary position!

 

Thiago and Boateng were both utter gash. Definitely a player in there with Sanches but how he was £40m I'll never know, that's the sort of money English teams spunk on unproven youngsters.

Dortumund's defence is awful this season. Compare it to the Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels, Schmelzer defence under Klopp. That Bartra **** from Barca is a liability. I thought it was a good signing in the summer too.

 

^^^^^ Ugly hipster stuck in 2014

 

Awww bless. Wittle Tobias wooking to bait me.

 

Admire your dexterity by including the term 'gash' in a description of an individual's performance on a football field while the subject and narrative of the thread is predominantly about 'good' and 'bad' (?) pornography. This wordplay might not be appreciated by 'Home Counties' residents!

Marcus Rashford; saviour of English national team!?!?!

 

Could take it a step further and say Big Carlo has to ride them hard if they want to find form again.

I actually think Rashford is a right good player. Direct, pacy and a natural finisher but the likes of Germany, France and Spain have four or five guys each the same age just as good. Look at France with Coman and Dembele x2

 

This is moving into the realms of fantasy!

I picture Grosse Carlo as a more seductive 'teacher' whose emphasis would be on lengthy foreplay climaxed by swift thrusts through the heart of his/your 'opponent's' defence! Ho-hum!

On 'Die Mannschaft' (ooh err missus) front when the f..k will 'we' unearth another centre forward; pity they couldnae have done a 'Klose/Podolski' with Lewandowski!

 

Keep your posts short and sweet please.

I don't read past the 3rd line unless it's Grove

 

Didn't read lol