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Major victory in the "violent porn" consultation

Source: Melon Farmers

Plans to make the viewing of so-called "violent pornography" have, it would seem, met with substantial opposition. The Home Office apparently received more than 400 responses to their consultation, the majority of which were against their proposals. They have also had meetings with key organisations such as the BBFC and the BDSM community, the outcome of which has been that "any plans to criminalise the viewing of extreme pornographic imagery will be much less far-reaching than had been indicated in the Government's consultation paper".

This legislation, the result of an ill-judged campaign spearheaded by the opportunistic family of the murdered Jane Longhurst, will surely go ahead in some form, but it looks as if the most outrageous proposals have been nipped in the bud. The notion of imprisoning someone for simply seeing an image is, to me, completely unfathomable, but we can be thankful, at least, that the bill will receive the now-customary watering down it rightly needs.

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