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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @09:33PM
Well enlighten us O Sage of Wisdom. What was 1984 really about?
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday November 27 2016, @02:09AM
1984 is about controlling people. From their thoughts, down to their orgasms (literally in the movie).
He was modded insightful because censorship is mind control. If someone writes a column for a magazine my girlfriend happens to read that says something like "The best way to control your man is to cut him off half the time he wants it." that is also mind control and at the same time fucking with my orgasms. So, censorship is great as long as you get to be the censor.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by quintessence on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:41AM
I was always more taken by the distrust than the control per se. Every bit of the society was manufactured to a point where people couldn't exercise a choice even if they tried since they were operating in an unreal. Winston and Julia turning on each other was the coup de grace as it meant people couldn't even trust each other or even how they feel (or the homosexual
Relating back to the article, censoring porn by and large is othering human sexuality. Many people explore aspects of themselves through porn that they are too embarrassed to share with their partners, or may be their only sexual outlet. Not strictly mind control, but leaving the only avenue for sexual expression a hole in a sheet. The parallels to the Junior Anti-Sex League should be obvious.