Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The "Dangerous Pictures Law"

Despite protests from right groups and Amnesty International, a law will be activated on January 26 in the UK, outlawing "extreme pornography". Article.
"Lord Hunt of Kings Heath said: 'We are targeting this material not on account of offences which may or may not have been committed in the production of the material, but because the material itself, which depicts extreme violence and often appears to be non-consensual, is to be deplored'."

In other words, it's illegal because it's offensive.

Details are here.
How about this: it's illegal to have pictures of necrophilia because... get this: because a corpse can't give consent! How about a carrot? It can't either.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

In other words, it's illegal because it's offensive.

England is getting closer and closer to Orwell's dystopian nightmare.

Alex said...

Unlike America which is heading to the ignorant consumerist dystopia of Bradburys "Farenheit 451".

Anonymous said...

Depicting non-consensual violence? they would have to ban just about everything if thats what they are after. I think he's beating around the bush a little.

Anonymous said...

Unlike America which is heading to the ignorant consumerist dystopia of Bradburys "Farenheit 451".

Which is worse? At least in Fahrenheit 451 they had TV. They had some kind of entertainment.

I'm not American or English so I guess I'm okay.