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That's about par for the course.
So far, the current UK government seems to realise they've lost their voters; thus they're trying to appeal to the opposition's voters.
The trouble is, no-one really wants censorship laws save for small (but vocal) pockets religious nuts masquerading as feminists.
We've normalised "if you are against x, you are a vile monster" kind of thinking; and thus we are now facing sweeping censorship.
Why is your political class in the UK even discussing such nonsense? If no harm is done, let people jack off to whatever they please.
The Labour Party has some Methodist roots (possibly more than Socialist) and has long included a petty-authoritarian faction. Starmer and Shabana Mahmood are very much of that tendency. See also bans on anti-genocide protests, the failed-yet-again ID card scheme, cruel treatment towards asylum seekers and trans people, continuing opposition towards soft-drug decriminalisation, and upholding previous age-verification and porn bans.
It's idiotic because Labour's chances of seizing the curtain-twitcher vote from Labour and Reform are next to nil.
But I suppose Starmer's too afraid to stand up to Trump, so there needs to be some kind of "think of the children" displacement activity to stay in the press.
Thou doth protest too much 😏
What a colossal waste of tax money if it actually goes through... They're gonna feel silly when they realize none of the people in the films are actually related and porn is just fantasy. I suppose is these people understood fantasy they wouldn't be religion simps though.
Labour not burning piles of political capital on ridiculous pet issues challenge (impossible, any%):
Seriously of all the porn kink that can exist why is the one about fucking your family the most popular in certain countries? It's just Your relatives are basically the only person you shouldn't fuck, why them, that just seems gross and mentally unhealthy.
This is nothing to do with actual child abuse or real incest porn, and they know it, this is the next step in their war against VPNs and those circumventing their internet "age" real ID checks.
This will give them what will be an ever expanding big stick to clamp down on anybody they cant force to use their ID checking system, anybody using smaller providers (VPN or Porn) to avoid the checks will be suspect of criminal activity and will have equipment seized.
The first step was to push the larger providers to comply or get out, the next step is to start to tackle the smaller providers and consumers who at least want to try to stay legal.
Its never about 100% success with clamping down, its about getting the majority to comply and having useful tools to deal with those who do not, especially as they now stand out far more.
Sounds like someone got caught watching step sister porn, and is now throwing the weight of government behind his shame.
I see the US and the UK still battling it out regarding who the bigger idiot is
Great, now everywhere else is going to be overrun by british porn-tourists, locking themselves in their hotel rooms for their entire stay, looking to masturbate to lame incest porn.
As a furry, this is uh, worrying.
Really glad we're not in the UK. Though uh, not like the US is much better at this point... but at least the US has the whole "everyone understands that the current government is going on a series of ridiculous power trips" going for it, so they're less inclined to just think "ah yeah, throw all the weirdos in jail, totally normal!".
(I'm not into incest, but I am into completely different Weird Shit.)
-- Frost
Honestly even explicit content aside, I'm afraid of being lumped in with some group that's staring down the end of the barrel. Even though furries seem valuable to STEM jobs, the large LGBT presence and general 'weirdness' make it seem easy for us to be given some degenerate label.
Sex positions that are legal in the UK: missionary
No braces, no schoolgirl uniforms! Praise Allah
Why the Epstein scandal is Keir Starmer’s most perilous moment yet after chief of staff resigns
Really tackling the tough issues there. 🙄
Surprised they're outright banning it instead of requiring a license
From my own experience living in the UK (as somebody from somewhere else in Europe who also lived in a couple more European countries), Britain is hugelly Moralistic, sorta like Southern Europe 50 years ago before Universal Education when those countries were very religious.
The thing is, Southern Europe has actually moved onwards from that decades ago, as religion's power weakened thanks to high levels of Education amongst the young, whilst in Britain there were a few decades with a bit more moral liberalism which was just about enough to make homophobia socially frowned upon and to make homosexual marriage legal, but no further, and it all seemed to be anchored on who it is or not socially acceptable to shun for their sexuality, so nowadays you get self-proclaimed Feminists in The Guardian (so, supposedly the most liberal people in the most liberal newspaper) with opinion pieces outraged about for the (I! Kid! You! Not!) use of sex dolls by men, with not even the tinyest bit of self-awareness about how that's exactly the same kind of article written about homosexuality a mere 40 years ago only about some other sexual practice that hurts nobody.
Unsurprisingly, that country has even slid down to transphobia in recent years.
So in present day Britain things having slid down so far that there's a moral outrage for some kind of sexual roleplaying or other and a weak and desperate hard-right "center"-"left" government enacting legislation with actual prison time for it, isn't too surprising.
In the XXI century, Britain is quickly passing the most backwards countries in Europe, accelerating towards its "golden age": the Victorian Era.
So when are they jailing the pedofile child torturers
Truly the Anglo-Saxons are a bane to the world.
I blame Game of Thrones for this.
Abhorrent ? I would at best call it "annoying" because all porn sites are flooded with it, but abhorrent ? It's legal to actually do in most countries, INCLUDING the UK 😅
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.
Slippery slope and all that but I guess this specifically applies to someone pretending to be underage, I'm pretty sure that's already illegal in the US as is.
It's also illegal in Australia... but in practise the "appearance" of being underage is very dubious and destructive.
According to the law, all women with a certain breast size are pretending to be minors.
I wonder what genre they'll do next?
lesbian porn? probalby trans porn next.