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    I wonder how they are going to Police this then? will our spanking pictures in Test Please Delete be affected?
    Crackdown on violent porn

    LONDON (Reuters) - The government is to make possession of extreme and violent pornography a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in jail, the government announced on Wednesday.

    Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said the government planned to make it an offence to own images featuring scenes of extreme sexual violence, following a year-long consultation on the issue.

    The action is a victory for the family of Jane Longhurst, a 31-year-old Brighton teacher murdered in 2003 by a man obsessed with viewing necrophilia Web sites, who have campaigned to block access to such material in the UK.
    "My daughter Sue and myself are very pleased that after 30 months of intensive campaigning we have persuaded the government to take action against these horrific Internet sites, which can have such a corrupting influence and glorify extreme sexual violence," Longhurst's mother Liz told the BBC.

    She helped organise a petition with 50,000 signatures objecting to extreme Web sites which was presented to parliament and won the backing of a number of MPs.

    The new law would outlaw any material that featured violence that was, or appeared to be, life-threatening or likely to result in serious and disabling injury.

    Although it is already illegal to distribute or publish such images under the Obscene Publications Act, the material has become increasingly available via the Internet.

    "The vast majority of people find these forms of violent and extreme pornography deeply abhorrent," Coaker said.

    "Such material has no place in our society but the advent of the Internet has meant that this material is more easily available and means existing controls are being by-passed -- we must move to tackle this."
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

    #2
    What is going to happen with all of the renascence art with naked cherubs and the devil burning naked bodies?


    Did you also hear about the smoking ban on Tom and Gerry cartoons?

    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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      #3
      Originally posted by Paddy
      What is going to happen with all of the renascence art with naked cherubs and the devil burning naked bodies?


      Did you also hear about the smoking ban on Tom and Gerry cartoons?

      Jerry

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        #4
        Give up the violent porn guys

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          #5
          Originally posted by Churchill
          Jerry
          No, Gerry: the ripped off Chinese copy version.
          "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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            #6
            Originally posted by Paddy
            What is going to happen with all of the renascence art with naked cherubs and the devil burning naked bodies?


            Did you also hear about the smoking ban on Tom and Gerry cartoons?

            Yup

            Scary ... soon no uncensored B&W classic films featuring smoking will be shown before the watershed.

            Did you see the story of the van driver ticketed for "dripping ash" out his window? well people walking also "drip ash" so I guess they will also be fined
            Last edited by Troll; 30 August 2006, 16:46.
            How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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              #7
              We're all going to hell in a chipped dustcart!

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                #8
                I can see where Labour are going with this.

                Rubbish is waste.
                Waste must be paid for.
                Voting Lib Dem or Tory is a waste.
                Therefore fine those that don't vote Labour.
                First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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