UK pornography taskforce to propose banning 'barely legal' content

5 chrisjj 4 8/3/2025, 5:02:13 PM theguardian.com ↗

Comments (4)

al_borland · 3h ago
It seems like this would just create a cat and mouse game where the distributors of this content will just keep coming up with creative new names.
ratelimitsteve · 4h ago
"We just wanna protect the children surely you can't think that it's okay for children to see things like this aaaaaaaaaaaand now we're trying to ban things that are explicitly defined as legal because you let us establish the idea that we can use state violence to enforce taste."
ben_w · 4h ago
The UK has been doing that since at least the Victorian era; it's not the USA, it doesn't share the USA's position about freedom of expression being paramount.

Slightly more recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

chrisjj · 3h ago
Kerching! :)