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Web users in the UK will be banned from accessing websites portraying a range of non-conventional sexual acts, under a little discussed clause to a government bill currently going through parliament.
The proposal, part of the digital economy bill, would force internet service providers to block sites hosting content that would not be certified for commercial DVD sale by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
[...] Pictures and videos that show spanking, whipping or caning that leaves marks, and sex acts involving urination, female ejaculation or menstruation as well as sex in public are likely to be caught by the ban – in effect turning back the clock on Britain's censorship regime to the pre-internet era.
The scale of the restrictions only became apparent after the BBFC, which has since 1984 been empowered to classify videos for commercial hire or sale, agreed to become the online age verification regulator last month. A spokeswoman for the BBFC said it would also check whether sites host "pornographic content that we would refuse to classify".
[...] . A spokesman for DCMS [Department for Culture, Media and Sport] said the government's aim is to ensure that the same "rules and safeguards" that exist in the physical world also apply online.
Source: The Guardian
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:50PM
So, they're going to have to watch every porn video on tha internet? Will they have to keep watching to re certify that every site is in compliance? It sounds like they're going to need thousands of new hires to sit around and watch porn all day.
I would just like to contract to supply Kleenex Tissues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:49PM
You'll be able to tell which guys work in that department at the BBC. They're the ones whose forearms are much larger on one arm as compared to the other.