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Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Murder is illegal. Would you advocate against murder in movie? Guess not, uh?

Let's make choking people illegal… wait, that's already the case. At least I hope it is. Would you advocate against choking in movies? Yes?

Nice double standards you got. YOU outed yourself as someone that's ok with censoring things that don't relate to them, on the flimsiest of pretense, without actually caring about actual people involved. You just want something you dislike to disappear, and use imaginary justification.

If you were advocating to protect victims? Sure. If I was saying "nah, choke women away!" then sure, I'd be wrong. I'm saying banning something will not change anything. And you're hell-bent on banning things.

Unless you're born yesterday, it is transparent that such laws are rarely, if ever, about protecting anyone. It's about setting up a mechanism to arbitrarily forbid contents and idea. But, I guess you're a-ok with that, and don't care either about actual people that gets rolled over by this. At no point you took the side of the supposed "victims" during filming, nor the "victims" of people supposedly "inspired" by porn, that are actually not the victim of porn, but the victim of lunatics that wants to physically dominate other, did it before porn, and will continue after porn. If at a single point in time you considered these people instead of crusading for "no, choking bad, ban imagery of choking!" you'd have gotten it.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trying to have a discussion with someone who doesn't care about logic or evidence is pointless, but...

Cley_faye clutching their pearls priceless

Edit: First they came for people strangulating each other causing permanent brain damage on camera and encouraging others to do so, then they came for Cley_faye's foot fetish videos. Oh God, this is how dumb this is.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, not addressing any single issue raised and citing people in derogatory ways. You sure made your point clear. I'm sure you're the man in every party you would go.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Glad you can admit you are a clown. After reading that last reply where you ignored everything I had said and doubled down on accusatory nonsense I realized it. Thank you.