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BBFC News

The Preferred Internet Censor
BBFC publishes its Annual Report covering 2016

UK Internet

Update: 9 months left to download enough free porn to last a lifetime
DCMS announces that UK internet censorship of adult websites will start in April 2018

UK Internet

Update: Howe Censorial
Elspeth Howe initiates another censorship private members bill to amend the definition of extreme porn to criminalise anything not allowed by the BBFC

ASA Watch

Stereotypically PC
ASA argues that advert censorship rules should be expanded to enforce PC moralism about gender stereotyping

Internet News

Internet Villain
Turkey's President Erdogan wins ISPA accolade

Movie News

George Romero Between Night And Dawn Limited Edition Blu-ray

Obituary: Master of the Living Dead
George A Romero, notable horror director, dies aged 77

BBFC Daily

Poster Belonging the Truth Behind the 2017 Morag Livingstone

Daily UK Ratings from the BBFC
War For the Planet of the Apes, The Belko Experiment, Nightmares Come at Night

Recent Releases

Weekly UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Latest releases

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: George Romero Between Night And Dawn
set of the early works of George Romero set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 23rd October 2017

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: I Drink Your Blood
1970 USA horror by David E Durston just released for the first time on UK Blu-ray

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: The Hunting Party
1971 USA / UK action western drama by Don Medford, cut in the US and UK, just released on US Blu-ray

BBFC Weekly

Weekly UK Adult Ratings from the BBFC
Nearly a blank week this week

Asia Pacific

Update: Fingerprints required for a top-up
Thai government proposes extreme measures to control phone users and social media companies

Also in the News

16th July

Indian censors drag their heels about unbanning the gay film Ka Bodyscapes ludicrously claiming that they cannot afford a board wide meeting to discuss cuts.

Senran Kagura Games Won’t Be Toned Down For Western Gamers from oneangrygamer.net

Movie trailers are now introduced by the film makers involved from denofgeek.com

3rd July

Shops are using spy techniques to monitor customers' facial expressions from telegraph.co.uk

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Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge Episode 45
The Angels' Share
Ken Loach, bad language and the BBFC

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The Rookie

UK Internet Porn Censorship
The Digital Economy Bill is passing through Parliament and will lead to the mass blocking of internet porn to all UK residents. This includes the free tube sites and is not restricted to UK based websites. The BBFC has been appointed to the new role of internet porn censor.

Looking forward to censoring adult websites
BBFC worryingly announces new Policy Director with a background of child protection

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Nightmare scenario for UK adult businesses
Pandora Blake announces an end to new content on her website citing unviable age verification requirements soon to be demanded by UK law

Update: The BBFC will have its work cut out
The Open Rights Group wonders whether the Digital Economy Act will lead to the blocking of 4.6 million porn sites

Update: Disgraceful Tories
Open Rights Group comments on the passing of the Digital Economy Bill which feeds British porn viewers to the scammers, blackmailers and ID thieves

Update: A total ban on internet porn in the UK averted
The government says that it will remove the impractical censorship power requiring the BBFC to ban foreign porn websites that contain material beyond R18 such has as fisting and squirting

Recent Melon Farmers News

Backward Together
The conservative manifesto on internet censorship

NHS ransom shows GCHQ putting us at risk
Government snoops prove unable to keep their backdoor access tools safe from hackers

Update: PC PCs
London Mayor sets up police unit to censor online insults and hate crime

Taking over control of the BBC
Ofcom are the new TV censors for the BBC and have issued demands for more 'worthy' programming

Insulting censorship
Book publishers employ 'sensitivity readers' to expunge anything politically incorrect from novels

Recent Movie News

Shopping: The Mountain Of The Cannibal God
1978 Italian video nasty by Sergio Martino set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 25th September 2017

Shopping: Cold Blooded Beast
1971 Italy horror mystery thriller by Fernando Di Leo set for UK Blu-ray release on 24th July 2017 with previous BBFC cuts waived

Shopping: Don't Look in the Basement/Don't Look in the Basement 2
1973 US video nasty by SF Brownrigg set for US Blu-ray release on 11th July 2017

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
BBFC advised category cuts required for a U rated cinema release

Obituary: Roger Moore
The Man With the Golden Gun dies aged 89

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UK Internet Porn Censorship

For those that hold the opinion that Britain is bastion of Western liberal values...
Porn Censorship in Britain 2016: The Digital Economy Bill. By the Britisher. Via YouTube

Porn performers talk about the UK porn laws . By Pandora Blake Via YouTube
Help defeat this ill-informed censorship
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Tony Bear explains UK video censorship to Lady Bear

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sfc.org.uk - sexual freedom

UK Internet

18th Jul

Update: 9 months left to download enough free porn to last a lifetime
DCMS announces that UK internet censorship of adult websites will start in April 2018

UK Internet

Update: Howe Censorial
Elspeth Howe initiates another censorship private members bill to amend the definition of extreme porn to criminalise anything not allowed by the BBFC

UK Internet

16th Jul

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: 9 months left to download enough free porn to last a lifetime
The Daily Mail reports that UK internet censorship of adult websites will start in April 2018

UK Internet

23rd Jun

Looking forward to censoring adult websites
BBFC worryingly announces new Policy Director with a background of child protection

BBFC News

18th Jul

The Preferred Internet Censor
BBFC publishes its Annual Report covering 2016

Movie News

Obituary: Master of the Living Dead
George A Romero, notable horror director, dies aged 77

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: George Romero Between Night And Dawn
set of the early works of George Romero set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 23rd October 2017

South Asia

16th Jul

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

Update: Holy Cow Batman!
Crazed Indian film censor bans the use of the word 'cow'

Video Nasties

10th Jul

The Mountain Of The Cannibal God Blu-ray

Shopping: The Mountain Of The Cannibal God
1978 Italian video nasty by Sergio Martino set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 25th September 2017

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: Dawn Of The Dead
2004 action horror by Zack Snyder set for US Blu-ray release on 24th October 2017

Cuts and Bans

4th Jul

Shopping: Updated: Cold Blooded Beast
1971 Italy horror mystery thriller by Fernando Di Leo set for UK Blu-ray release on 24th July 2017 with previous BBFC cuts waived

UK Internet

18th Jul

Update: 9 months left to download enough free porn to last a lifetime
DCMS announces that UK internet censorship of adult websites will start in April 2018

UK Internet

Update: Howe Censorial
Elspeth Howe initiates another censorship private members bill to amend the definition of extreme porn to criminalise anything not allowed by the BBFC

ASA Watch

Stereotypically PC
ASA argues that advert censorship rules should be expanded to enforce PC moralism about gender stereotyping

Internet News

Internet Villain
Turkey's President Erdogan wins ISPA accolade

Asia Pacific

Update: Fingerprints required for a top-up
Thai government proposes extreme measures to control phone users and social media companies

UK Internet

16th Jul

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: 9 months left to download enough free porn to last a lifetime
The Daily Mail reports that UK internet censorship of adult websites will start in April 2018

Asia Pacific

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Over blocking
China moves towards banning VPNs use to circumvent internet blocking but say that this is not a total ban on all VPNs

Asia Pacific

12th Jul

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: A Korean Punk Band's Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk's documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the arrest of the band's producer after posting controversial tweets.

News Latest

Diary: Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
July 12th. Internet-Wide Day of Action to protest against US corporations trying to take control of the internet

ASA Watch

12th Jul

ASA uses its scissors
PC censor bans Femfresh bikini line shaving advert

UK News

10th Jul

Update: False trail
Birmingham authorities assemble mass raiding party on the scent of trafficking at a lap dancing club...and inevitably can't find any trace

Sex Shop News

7th Jul

And the winners were
ETO Awards 2017

World P4P

4th Jul

Update: Forced underground
Germany passes new law requiring sex workers to register with their local authority

Sex Toys News

Extract: 30th Anniversary Of The Sybian
A family-run business in rural Illinois reflects on how its famous product has changed with the times.

Diary

27th Jun

Diary: Sexhibition 2017
CANCELLED: 1-3 September 2017, Manchester, UK

Diary

25th Jun

Diary: Mayhem Film Festival
12 - 15th October 2017 in Nottingham

Recent Releases

18th Jul

Weekly UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Latest releases

Future Releases

Shopping: George Romero Between Night And Dawn
set of the early works of George Romero set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 23rd October 2017

Recent Releases

Shopping: I Drink Your Blood
1970 USA horror by David E Durston just released for the first time on UK Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Shopping: The Hunting Party
1971 USA / UK action western drama by Don Medford, cut in the US and UK, just released on US Blu-ray

Recent Releases

17th Jul

Shopping: Followed
2017 USA thriller by Ryan Justice just released on UK DVD

Recent Releases

Shopping: Elle
2016 France / Germany / Belgium thriller by Paul Verhoeven just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Recent Releases

16th Jul

Shopping: Contamination
1980 Italian video nasty by Luigi Cozzi just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Weekly US DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Curse of the Crimson Altar, The Hunting Party, Species

Recent Releases

15th Jul

A Cure for Wellness Digital HD UV Blu-ray

Shopping: A Cure For Wellness
2017 USA / Germany horror mystery thriller by Gore Verbinski just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

New Listings

18th Jul

Shopping: George Romero Between Night And Dawn
set of the early works of George Romero set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 23rd October 2017

New Listings

17th Jul

Shopping: Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet St
2007 USA / UK musical horror thriller by Tim Burton set for US DVD and Blu-ray release on 1st August 2017

New Listings

Shopping: I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle
1990 UK comedy horror by Dirk Campbell set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 2nd October 2017

New Listings

16th Jul

Shopping: The Fog
1980 USA horror thriller by John Carpenter set for US Blu-ray release on 1st August 2017

New Listings

Shopping: Waxwork
1988 USA / West Germany / UK comedy horror by Anthony Hickox set for UK Blu-ray release on 28th August 2017

New Listings

Shopping: Countdown Armageddon
2016 USA action Sci-Fi thriller by Nick Lyon set for UK DVD release on 31st July 2017

New Listings

12th Jul

Shopping: They Live
1988 USA action comedy horror by John Carpenter set for US Steelbook Blu-ray release on 1st August 2017

New Listings

Shopping: The Ghoul
UK drama by Gareth Tunley set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 4th September 2017

New Listings

Shopping: We Go On
2016 USA horror thriller by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton set for UK DVD release on 31st July 2017

Sex Machines

17th Jul

Vac-u-lock
Sex machine dildos and attachments

New and Offers

Simply Adult
Latest releases from Zero Tolerance, Sweetheart, Sweet Sinner

New and Offers

16th Jul

Private
Galleries from Private and Private Classics

New and Offers

12th Jul

Watch Teens With Tits #2
Recommended by the BBFC

New and Offers

Performers Of The Year 2017
Selected releases at Adult DVD Empire

New and Offers

9th Jul

Private
Galleries from Private and Private Castings

Sex Shop News

7th Jul

And the winners were
ETO Awards 2017

New and Offers

6th Jul

Watch Faces Covered 3
Selected releases at Hot Movies

Sex Toys News

4th Jul

Extract: 30th Anniversary Of The Sybian
A family-run business in rural Illinois reflects on how its famous product has changed with the times.

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