Category Archives: Porn

Never let a good crisis go to waste

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It’s been a terribly busy year in politics in the UK, and whilst we’ve all been busy worrying about Brexit and the US elections our glorious masters have been quietly getting on with business. Doing such things as deciding that our ISP’s must block legal adult sites if they don’t do enough to verify our ages, not matter where they are located. The OpenRights group have a petiton to stop that. However the bill also requires that ISPs record every site you visit for 12 months. Of course if those weren’t bad enough on their own search engines and social … Continue reading →

You can’t do that…

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You may well have noticed that the UK censors have finally noticed the internet and have decided following a quiet amendment to the law to make the depiction of all sorts of legal acts illegal in online porn. Of course with typical “logic” this only applies to porn made in the UK, porn made anywhere else can carry on as it was, just as well the internet pays so much attention to country borders. LegIron has already written an excellent article on the matter to which I’ve very little to add. The few bits I might have added were taken … Continue reading →

text messages are publishing

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In very related new to the recent porn trial reports, it would seem that our enlightened judiciary are once more extending the law. For they have decided on an appeal ruling that sending a text message counts as publishing as far as the obscene publications act is concerned. The full details are over at the The Register, but basically text based communications to an audience of one counts as publishing, and it could be up to a jury to decide if the text is capable of “depraving or corrupting”. If it were a chat session then both parties could be … Continue reading →