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This reads like an April Fool's prank. They say that people should be protected from "harmful content", which somehow includes pornography? Is it the 80s again

This reads like an April Fool's prank. They say that people should be protected from "harmful content", which somehow includes pornography? Is it the 80s again? The rhetoric here sounds like it's coming from the distant past, when government officials were completely out of touch with the way ordinary people use new technology. Now it just looks like a blatant attempt to score "anti-terrorism" points and regulate the shit out of an industry in draconian ways, just for the sake of regulating it (what are the possible motives, besides the laughable "we don't want to provide safe space for terrorists to communicate" claim?) Are people actually supporting this kind of thinking?

kobeya 9y ago
I suspect harmful content here also include ISIS recruiting.
noir_lord 9y ago
> The rhetoric here sounds like it's coming from the distant past. May was an authoritarian home secretary who was raised (and is a practising) Christian (iirc her dad was a vicar). She's a one-woman Morality Police (in her head at least).
- Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
  Ironically her father's former home church is now signed up to the Inclusive Church movement, a progressive, tolerant movement which is the opposite of her xenophobic conservatism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Church https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Church
jaclaz 9y ago
Maybe you meant the 70's? The '80's were pretty much liberal AFAICR (in the rest of Europe), the UK has always had some "special rules", guess which country is yellow among all the green in this map? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_King... >The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in most other Western countries, which legalised hardcore pornography during the 1960s and 1970s. By contrast the UK was almost the only liberal democracy not to do so.

kobeya 9y ago

I suspect harmful content here also include ISIS recruiting.

noir_lord 9y ago

> The rhetoric here sounds like it's coming from the distant past. May was an authoritarian home secretary who was raised (and is a practising) Christian (iirc her dad was a vicar). She's a one-woman Morality Police (in her head at least).

Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
Ironically her father's former home church is now signed up to the Inclusive Church movement, a progressive, tolerant movement which is the opposite of her xenophobic conservatism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Church https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Church

jaclaz 9y ago

Maybe you meant the 70's? The '80's were pretty much liberal AFAICR (in the rest of Europe), the UK has always had some "special rules", guess which country is yellow among all the green in this map? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_King... >The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in most other Western countries, which legalised hardcore pornography during the 1960s and 1970s. By contrast the UK was almost the only liberal democracy not to do so.