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I think we agree? I mean that the UK is full of moralistic panics, often has put force of law behind them. Same topic, the age of consent in the UK is 16*, so
by ben_w 1y ago
I think we agree? I mean that the UK is full of moralistic panics, often has put force of law behind them.
Same topic, the age of consent in the UK is 16*, so there's already a weird mixed standard of "you can do this, but for the next two years it's a crime if you share a recording of yourself doing a thing you are allowed to do".
* or was when I was that age, possibly with exceptions for gay men but not lesbians, it was around when gay equality for the age of consent happened and I remember the exact rules being weird even then
- ratelimitsteve 1y agoI suppose I assumed you were defending the position when you were merely defining it. My mistake there. As a USican we also have really weird age of consent laws where it's like "16 is okay for everything, but you have to be 18 to document it, and if one of you is over 18 then the other has to be over 18 unless you're close to over 18 (the definition of "close to" being something that varies state by state) or my personal favorite which is that in many states there are no age restrictions to marriage if the minor's parents consent. I just wanted to focus on this one because at the bottom of it is an effort to make it illegal to follow the law but in a cheeky way. That, I think, is the part that UK culture has that US doesn't. As a rule we're generally encouraged to find ways to adhere to the letter of the law but not the spirit, it's considered clever.
- chrisjj 1y agoI don't see barely legal means necessarily cheeky.