Backlash: Approaching law will ban extreme images

Deborah Hyde of Backlash-uk.org.uk speaking at London Fetish Fair April 13 2008 about the approaching law banning extreme images.

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[LondonFetishFair]

There is an online petition against the new legislation. Contact the backlash site to sign it. Whilst it might not influence them . A petition with say 50,000

signatures on might make them think again

[thehab83]

this is actually scary!

In this day and age with bondage having been around for hundreds of years, one woman is murdered (Jane Longhurst) by a "porn addict" and THIS happens?

I'm sorry, but I have been into submissive/dominant sex play for years and I am perfectly well adjusted... this is not the damn 50's!

Seriously, I think I may move to France, who's with me?

a revolting invasion of privacy... I actually feel like crying this world is so far past gone...

[chulcoop]

The stupidest thing of all about this is this:

If you tape the first 5 minutes of Basic Instinct 1 off the TV for your own sexual arousal you could be locked up.

However if you recorded the entire film off TV so you could watch the first 5 minutes you would be in compliance of the law and could not be prosectuted.

If that isn't silly,

Also (before some amendments were madeit would have been illegal to own photo of your girlfriend surfboarding.

Surfing is life threatening

[monday90]

This isn't nazi germany you know, it isn't like ISP's have to keep a record of your browsing history.

Bliar and Broon have done this country proud, I can walk safely in the streets of Brixton at night. Fuel prices are at an all time low. My house is worth more than it has ever been, and the people of Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan are just queuing up to thank us for bringing them stability and peace.

Hang on a minute??

[monday90]

People wait a minute, this law is not necessarily a bad thing after all gordon does know best! Next thing you'll be telling me that local councils are weighing your rubbish or pointing cctv cameras at you're front door to ensure you're not fraudulently claiming benefits. Hell you might even make some sort of ridiculous claim like you got followed every day for a month to ensure you lived in the correct catchment area for a school!

Hang on a minute???

[firekind1980]

if everyone ignores this half baked law it will be thrown out. i personally think its just yet another way for this government to fine people though.

remember this is the same government that has given police the power to walk drunk people to a cashpoint and take their money for very minor offences.

[WJC007]

The UK is ment to be a country of free speech and a free life, but now i think personally the goverment and the law are tearing this country to pieces. In England now you can't live or say anything that will get not get you in trouble. So Britain is not a free country anymore, England is falling apart and the law and the goverment arn't doing anything about it, there watching tjere own country become a prison basically.

[ironfan114]

Does extreame cartoon images count.

[koimaster]

it's fucking ridiculous. The UK is taking away everyones autonomy and freedom.

[MrHoppyX]

(cont'd ) Surely what consenting adults get up to together is their own business, and if they take pictues of themselves getting a bit freaky and some other consenting adult wants to take a look, then that's their business too. Free countries in the western world doesn't have nonsense like this. We'll be living in an evil authoritarian dystopia like history and sci-fi has been warning us about since, like, forever, and we're all going to have to be ashamed of being British. Great!