• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Banning porn where the actors pretend that what they’re doing is almost illegal is wild. What’s next, prison time if they say that one of the participants is just over the age of consent?

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      Nah, I want to know when they finally ban the really vile stuff. You know, all those murders on the screen in, oh I don’t know, 70% of all fictional works?

      That they seriously consider step porn as worse than murder shows that it is all about control and not about morals.

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        They need to have some violence in media, how else would you recruit tomorrows policemen and soldiers.

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          dont you mean brownosers and cannon fodder. also add in a little, degrading education standards, and funding helps.

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        Talking about banning porn is just outrage porn for those for and against it. The point is to drive home surveillance state and most importantly drive discussion away from things that actually matter and the people in power desperately want people not to talk about or take notice. Modern liberal politics is very much an art of pretending to do something when actually doing nothing and just acting as the guarddog of even decaying society that has been politically hermetically sealed for the benefit of the top 1% funder class.

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        That they seriously consider step porn as worse than murder shows that it is all about control and not about morals.

        No, it shows their morals are different than yours (and mine).

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      A key clause not included in the headline and only briefly mentioned in the article is that this doesn’t ban all step-porn. It only bans the step-porn if one of the actors pretends to be under 18.

      From gov.uk:

      The first of these vital measures will ban anyone from possessing or publishing harmful pornography that shows incest between family members, and sex between step or foster relations where one person is pretending to be under 18.

      A further amendment will criminalise the publication and possession of pornography where an adult is roleplaying as a child.

      (edited to update link)

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        Isn’t an adult pretending to be a child in porn already illegal? That seems like something that would always have been illegal.

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          It sounds like that was not actually illegal in the UK, based on the article. However, I am not a UK resident nor expert in porn law.

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            In that case is it still legal if they’re not pretending related? Seems that would be the bigger fish here.

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        That seems like a weirdly specific way to just say that age of consent laws apply to the stated ages of the actors. The UK’s age of consent is 16, or 18 if the other person is in a position of power (like a step-parent is).