The UK government intends to legislate to ban pornography that is (1) violent, or about (2) necrophilia or (3) bestiality.
Anyone who accuses them of flogging a dead horse in their search for votes would be entirely unjustified.
PS actually, it’s only ‘life-threateningly’ violent, before any readers get worried about their stash of spanking movies… not that that particular climb-down from their original position featured strongly in the government’s PR blitz this week.
“PS actually, it’s only ‘life-threateningly’ violent, before any readers get worried about their stash of spanking movies”
Do you have a source for that, by any chance? ‘Cos it’s /very much/ not the impression I have gained from Backlash and Informed Consent…
The link in the post goes to the Home Office paper detailing the government response to the consultation. (We’ve just corrected the link, because they have moved the paper since yesterday.)
Anyway, if you click on that, and go to page six, paragraphs 12-14, you’ll see how they are proposing to define the offences. As Abel says, that seems to be quite a climbdown from the broader definitions they’d been floating to start with.