Wednesday 5 January 2011

"Extreme porn" laws tested (This post will make you a criminal)

WARNING!

Viewing this post may make you a criminal!

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This will probably not pop up much but it is worth noting that a person is now on trial for possession of so called "Extreme porn". No mention of what the porn is other than that they showed "injury to a person's breast" and "an act which threatens a person's life". Given that this could cover image of a nipple piercing:

By Jess Cruz from San Francisco (The Pain) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

and strangulation:

 
http://metalkings.ru/mayhem/mayhem-pictures/strangulation.jpg

both of which I'm sure appear in films, TV and now this webpage it's kind of a stupid thing to prosecute over, especially as the making of these images is not illegal: just their viewing (sorry you are now a criminal).

Anyway stupid law is stupid and hopefully this won't go through