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[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 7 hours ago

Including possession? What will they do, demand all users in the UK to unlock their devices for regular content scans?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Help me Step Big Brother! I'm stuck with my government in my bedroom!

[–] Bassman27@lemmy.world 300 points 6 days ago (12 children)

When banging your step mum is legal but watching a fictional video of someone else banging their step mum is illegal 🤪 welcome to the UK ladies and gentlemen.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 88 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's legal if you submit your ID to the government and have it recorded in the masterbaitorbase that you whacked off to that video. What, don't make it weird... /s

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

"Oi! Yew got a loicence fer that Stepmother? Roigt, oim gonna ave to clamp those jugs untill such toime as that courts decoide"

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Be sure you don't call a genocide a genocide. Wouldn't be proper.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oi bruv where's yer wanking loicense?!

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Not yer bruv, mate - I'm yer step-bruv! Fancy a shag?

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The Ministry of Justice said that possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime.

So it's only a crime if they pretend to be under-18, and I haven't seen any porno where anyone pretends to be under-18. There's literally a category called barely 18. No one ever pretends to be under, but they do pretend to be barely-18.

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, said: ‘After many years of campaigning to ensure online pornographic content is subject to the same rules as offline content,

When the fuck was under-18 porn ever legal? WTF? Also, isn't the age of consent in the UK 16 years old?

What the fuck is the point of this? Why the fuck is it needed? Who is it helping? What is it fixing? NOTHING.

Fucking jokers... Go tax the billionaires and fix the NHS and the cost of the living crisis you cunts .

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 193 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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?

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 122 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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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[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

Labour had a historical chance after the Tories have fucked it up so much, and they're just doing shit all the time

Hopefully the Green party can save UK

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

As always, the first computers you should check when anyone tries to ban consensual porn that harms no one, are the computers of the ones proposing the ban.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it a crime to fuck your step sister and step mother?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 118 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I don't really get this. If the characters in the production are adults and not blood related how is it different than roommate porn?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 72 points 6 days ago (6 children)

the UK loves to control adults. they banned face sitting porn. there was a law where you a had to ask your ISP to allow you to see adult content (with the default being off). but I'm not sure how/if it was enforced because I lived there when they made their law and had no issues.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they banned face sitting porn.

Well, it kinda makes sense. If you allow people to simply watch face sitting porn from the comfort of their homes, how are they supposed to sell the public the licenses required to face sit in real life?

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

Oi mate do you got a cunnilicense for that?

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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are the royals still allowed actual sex acts with their blood relatives?

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[–] mech@feddit.org 138 points 6 days ago (2 children)

tackling this vile content will make our country a safer place for women

Doubt.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 62 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The only porn allowed in 10 years will be of people getting fucked by the government

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (9 children)

The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can't. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

Also, and here's where it gets fun...

Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Step-incest pornography and that which depicts performers as children is abhorrent.
Alongside banning strangulation in pornography which the government previously announced, tackling this vile content will make our country a safer place for women and children and shows the UK can lead the world in tackling violence against women and girls

That's it folks, step incest is violence against women and girls. Next up, in order to further protect them, they'll be prohibited from going outside without a man by their side.

Whoever asked "What's next, BDSM?" - guess what

The government has already made porn that shows women being choked illegal, after a review found videos like these had helped normalise it in real life.

The only silver lining in this whole thing is still only in "planning"

Ministers are also planning to make tech bosses personally liable if their platforms do not remove intimate pictures of people that are posted without consent.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Choking by unskilled people, does lead to permanent injury or death.

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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 100 points 6 days ago (27 children)

I never understood this whole step porn thing, but this is ridiculous lol

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 53 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah.

I don’t get it, it’s weird, but is it 5 years in jail weird? No.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 60 points 6 days ago

Just another moral panic to allow the Government to continue to lay the ground work to take away rights.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Stay tuned for more porn advices from your government

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[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 58 points 6 days ago

The role of the government is not to decide what is abhorrent and what isn't. The role of the government is to ensure protection of human rights, provide healthcare, run schools, build infrastructure and so on.

Consenting horny adults being horny with each other and doing horny stuff to each other does not violate any human rights.

The British government can go fuck itself.

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

This is the hill they die on? This is the issue they threaten to revolt for? Not properly funding the NHS or something else that benefits people?

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 74 points 6 days ago (16 children)

You guys in the UK better burn any copies of Game of Thrones you might have around. The show wasn't that good as to be worth the jail time.

On a side note, is the UK alright?

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 36 points 6 days ago (5 children)

No, the UK is not alright. They've been banning a lot of stuff lately. And I mean a lot. It's comparable to even the Deep South of the US, and that's hardly an exaggeration. The worst part is that most of it seems to truly be a bipartisan effort.

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[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 12 points 4 days ago

If that’s what it takes to finally temper the step porn category then so be it. /s

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

abhorrent step incest porn, sure ban it, but what about good or hot step incest porn? We all know what that is when we see it, right?

And if they want to add a prison scene to the end of thos step incest porn films those pornos then fine. Sounds pervy to me, but I dont judge what other people do in their bedrooms alone that doesnt hurt anyone because thats none of my fucking business, or anyone elses. People (and governments) should just leave other people alone unless it directly affects others.

Starmer seems like a moron with this move.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 63 points 6 days ago

A country with what remains of a monarchy banning any kind of incest porn is just… wow…

Irony has been institutionalized.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 8 points 4 days ago

Someone check in with any step relatives he has, this smacks of projection

[–] floralmortal@lemmy.ca 41 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yet actual child predators often serve 2 years or less in prison :(

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 37 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Or nothing if you are an elite!

Remember Prince of the Nonces, Randy Andy is only under investigation because of alleging leaking confidential information. Nothing about being a child rapist.

Or all the other Epstein accomplices (minus Maxwell) are getting away for their crimes.

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 53 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The Ministry of Justice said that possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime.

This reads like its only banned if someone also pretends to be under 18?

IDK but I thought porn depicting minors was generally banned in most countries?

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Every few years politicians throw a Victorian fit and demand to cover up flag poles or some shit

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is the sort of stupid shit you get when you vote for right wing whack-a-doos.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Sad thing, that was supposed to be the left wing party. Corbyn was an open socialist.

but they had a huge antisemitic campaign that ousted him for his support of Palestine and turned the Labor into a clone of the Tories.

Somehow, Israel is always to blame.

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

MPs, of all people, have no fuckin right to act all holy about porn. They are depraved weirdos, the whole scabby bunch.

Just reminded me of this incident - it's a Tory, not labour, and many will be too young to remember, but I recall it being funny as fuck. The article neglects to mention that he was hanging in a cupboard and also had an orange full of poppers in his gob.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/8/newsid_2538000/2538165.stm

There are many, many more recent stories of debauchery amongst the bunch of wankers who rule over us, but I felt this one exemplifies the lot

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

there are countless thousands being massacred around the world, there are people starving to death, there are soooo many problems, and this is what we're focusing on? JFC. Fuck you starmer

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If you yell loud enough about this being an abomination, you seem more virtuous.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 33 points 6 days ago

Oh no! How will I ever know what to do when my step-sibling is stuck in a washing machine?!


Seriously though, while it is definitely weird when an adult pretends to be a minor in porn, is it really 5 years in prison weird??

Like are we really going to put people in prison for pretending to do something illegal when we already have a problem with huge delays in court times and severely overcrowded prisons?

I'd much prefer the limited public resources go towards locking up actual pedos than people fetishising them.

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