Government abusers
Appeals court finds that the Government's snooping law is an abuse of rights
Control Freaks
Opposing fake copies of copyright law
BT and EE go to Supreme Court opposing unfunded court requirements to block trademark abusing websites when there is no law to enable such blocks
Tech News
Cutting out the middleman
Firefox browser to support peer to peer internet protocols that allow users to bypass government censorship and surveillance
Hammer Films
Shopping: Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde
1971 UK horror by Roy Ward Baker, cut by the BBFC, just released on UK Blu-ray
The majority are for Indian films being cut for a lower rating cinema
release, but there are a few Hollywood category cuts and the inevitable
compulsory cuts for animal cruelty.
Latest
31st December 2017
Cutting Edge Episode 49
The Exorcist
Gavin Salkeld investigates a BBFC film censor possessed by a censorial spirit
The Digital Economy Bill has passed 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
penciled in for the new role of internet porn censor.
The law is currently
scheduled to take effect in May 2018.
World internet censors
The government publishes it guidance to the new UK porn
censor about notifying websites that they are to be
censored, asking payment providers and advertisers to end
their service, recourse to ISP blocks and an appeals process
Empire of the Censors
Murray Perkins of the BBFC travels the world to inform the
rest of the world how it will have to comply with UK
internet censorship
Censorship harms
The government outlines the expected harms to people and
businesses associated with its upcoming porn censorship law
Offsite Article
Offsite Article:
Questions for the DCMS
Pandora Blake goes on a quest to find if the government
understands the harm that age verification will cause to
businesses and porn viewers
Offsite Article
Offsite Article:
Age Verification Dangers
Pandora Blake offers a full analysis of the dangers and
difficulties that come with the introduction of age
verification in accordance with the Digital Economy Act 2017
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Justice not seen to be done
Humberside police launch a one sided prosecution of
an innocent man who joked about gypsies, just so
that they can virtue signal about how seriously they
take hate
Let's Stop the Censorship Machines
A few MEPs produce YouTube video highlighting the
corporate and state censorship that will be enabled
by an EU proposal to require social media posts to
be approved before posting by an automated
censorship machine
Video:
Shadow censorship
Hidden camera interviews feature Twitter engineers speaking
of biased political censorship and shadow banning where
tweets are quietly binned without telling the poster
Shopping:
Slaughterhouse Rock
1988 USA horror by Dimitri Logothetis just released
on UK DVD and Blu-ray with previous BBFC cuts waived
Shopping:
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1972 Spain/France horror by Jesus Franco just released
on UK DVD/Blu-ray Combo now with the Unclothed Version
Shopping:
Night Of The Living Dead
1968 USA horror by George A Romero gets the Criterion
treatment for UK Blu-ray release on 19th February 2018 with
a new workprint version
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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
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Backlash
Tony Bear explains UK video censorship to Lady Bear
In December 2014 the UK introduced new regulations to censor
online videos. Tony Bear explains the new rules to Lady Bear. She
doesn't like it. If you don't like it either, find out more at
Backlash.
Offsite Article: Will the BBFC Block Whores of Yore, A Sex Work History Site?
It is clear that the BBFC are set to censor porn websites but what about the grey area of non-porn websites about porn and sex work. The BBFC falsely claim they don't know yet as they haven't begun work on their guidelines
UK Internet
22nd Jan
World internet censors
The government publishes it guidance to the new UK porn censor about notifying websites that they are to be censored, asking payment providers and advertisers to end their service, recourse to ISP blocks and an appeals process
UK Internet
Empire of the Censors
Murray Perkins of the BBFC travels the world to inform the rest of the world how it will have to comply with UK internet censorship
UK Internet
17th Jan
Offsite Article
Offsite Article: A legal hub
The latest reports from Pornhub and the likes show what types of porn people like but perhaps also a timely reminder about the legalities of downloading porn in the UK
UK Internet
5th Jan
Censorship harms
The government outlines the expected harms to people and businesses associated with its upcoming porn censorship law
UK Internet
1st Jan
Internet censorship as a panacea for terrorism
Ludicrous government minister seems to think that the entire security bill combatting terrorism should be footed by social media companies because they don't take down extremist posts quickly enough
Extract: A Hollywood 'intimacy censor'
A comment piece on whether sex in the movies can survive the #MeToo campaign touches on the idea of an 'intimacy director' who polices the filming of sex scenes
Government abusers
Appeals court finds that the Government's snooping law is an abuse of rights
Control Freaks
Opposing fake copies of copyright law
BT and EE go to Supreme Court opposing unfunded court requirements to block trademark abusing websites when there is no law to enable such blocks
Tech News
Cutting out the middleman
Firefox browser to support peer to peer internet protocols that allow users to bypass government censorship and surveillance
US News
Censorship tyranny
Virginia lawmaker proposes a $20 tax charge for internet users to be able to access adult websites
Offsite Article: Linkmate of the month
Playboy brands Boing Boing a clickbait site with no fair use defence and so is liable to court action to ban links to unapproved 3rd party content
PC News
29th Jan
Justice not seen to be done
Humberside police launch a one sided prosecution of an innocent man who joked about gypsies, just so that they can virtue signal about how seriously they take hate crime
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