Thoughts on Reality Killers 2005 Italy horror by Alessandro Capone, Pablo Dammicco, Volfango De Biasi, recently banned by the BBFC, set
for US Blu-ray release on 10th June 2025
Video Nasty The BBC is screening a new comedy about young video nasty collectors in the
1980's
UK Internet Censorship: Current status
The Digital Economy Act 2017 threatened to introduce strict age verification for internet porn access coupled with ISP blocking for websites that don't comply.
However the legislation was fundamentally flawed by its voluntary approach to privacy and security. After a series of delays, the age verification section of the bill was put out of its misery in October 2019.
The censorship of internet porn will now
be carried over into the Online Safety Act which has wider ambitions on the censorship of the whole internet. The bill was discussed during 2020 and scrutinised by parliamentary committee in 2021 before being passed into law in 2023. Internet censor
Ofcom is currently consulting on its censorship rules to start in 2024 and 2025.
In 2021 Ofcom considered and extended EU VoD censorship under an updated AVMS directive. Ofcom is also consulting on similar EU inspired censorship
ideas about shared user generated video on websites such as YouTube. Ofcom will required strict age verification for websites with porn video but this will make little difference as these rules only apply to British based companies and there simply
aren't any of these left.
Meanwhile the Information Commissioner's Office has published wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children. These ICO rules came into force in September 2021.
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Thoughts on Reality Killers 2005 Italy horror by Alessandro Capone, Pablo Dammicco, Volfango De Biasi, recently banned by the BBFC, set
for US Blu-ray release on 10th June 2025
UK government seeks to break encryption on Apple's iCloud If Apple continues to offer encrypted iCloud then we
can infer that the encryption has been secretly compromised. If Apple withdraws the service from Brits then we will at least know that the rest of the world will stay safe.
Thoughts on Reality Killers 2005 Italy horror by Alessandro Capone, Pablo Dammicco, Volfango De Biasi, recently banned by the BBFC, set
for US Blu-ray release on 10th June 2025
Cuts and Bans 4th Mar
Nosferatu 2024 US/UK/Hungary horror mystery by Robert Eggers set for UK 4K Blu-ray release on 7th
April 2025
