UK horror fans...beware the Dangerous Pictures Act!!!

The UK Government are planning to jail people for viewing certain consensual "adult" images they don't agree with and the problem is that its also liable to catch out people who import horror and exploitation DVDs, depending on their content.

Checkout the following links for more info on the Dangerous Pictures Act...

Backlash, who have been campaigning against this law from the start...
http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/

BBC's article on the difficulties of this law (be sure to read the user comments underneath to gauge the publics opposition to this law)...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7...

Julian Petley's articles on the Dangerous Pictures Act.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=435

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=278

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=134

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=54

A View from the Trenches
http://trenchesview.blogspot.com/2008...

Unspeak article
http://unspeak.net/extreme-images/

Interesting discussion on the Red Pepper website...
http://tinyurl.com/5gvlsf

Article on The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/...

Daily Mail columnist Tom Utley's criticism of the law (and if you can't count on their support, then who can you?).
http://80.68.93.203/backlash/utley.html

Guardian columnist Frank Fisher's savaging of the proposals...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr...

Shirley Dent's Guardian blog (read the public comments underneath too)...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/200...

MP Martin Salter thinks snuff films are real (scroll down to about the 7th paragraph)...
http://www.politicaleditor.co.uk/extr...

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