Puritan Britain
"A bill outlawing the possession of "extreme pornography" is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex."
BBC article
Britain is running along the path to serfdom. CCTVs everywhere, a DNA database, all kinds of new anti-terrorist laws, you name it. And now they want to ban 'extreme pornography'. Someone in Britain must have mistook 1984 for a blueprint of government.
I for one would like to know how they plan on implementing this law. Is this law going to be enforced actively? With internet traffic surveillance and home searches and everything? Or is it going to be one of those mostly forgotten laws that is only drudged up when the police/politicians feel a need to get back at someone?
Clearly the law will wipe out pretty much all BDSM related material. But if the law considers recordings of violence and sex between consensual partners to be illegal (but apparently the act itself isn't?), how can you allow recordings of these things separately? Why would these things be ok on their own, but together form some horrific monster that the public psyche needs to be protected from?
Also, if someone decides to put on a BDSM show in front of those CCTV cameras, can the state be prosecuted for possession of extreme pornography?