Online Anonymity MPs line up to call for identity checks for all internet users without giving so much as two seconds of thought to consider
the consequences for businesses and internet users
Lap Dancing
Miserable Blackpool Council disgracefully wants to set a council mandated monopoly for one sex shop, and for a ban for new and replacement
lap dancing clubs
Twitter censors banned me from retweeting the
following joke: Soi it must be worth repeating:
My son was wearing a Vote Conservative T-shirt and an I love Boris baseball cap. He's been spat at, abused, slapped round the head and told he's a brainless twat. God knows what's going to
happen to him once he gets out of the house
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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 Harms Bill which has wider ambitions on the censorship of the whole internet. This bill will be discussed during 2020. An interesting foible is that if the censorship rules are a bit tough for US internet giants then these
may become a negotiating point in the upcoming trade talks with the US.
Prior to the Online Harms Bill will be consideration of the extension of EU VoD censorship under an updated AVMS directive. Ofcom had previously mirrored censorship
arrangements as proposed for the Digital Economy Act but now may need to reconsider as age verification services will not be so readily available. Also there is the issue that any onerous censorship/age verification requirements would only apply to
websites run from Britain so onerous rules may prove very unfair.
Meanwhile the Information Commissioner's Office has published wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children, Eg Amazon
shoppers may have to prove being 16+ before being allowed to hand over personal details to online checkouts. Since the draft, ICO downgraded 'age verification' to 'age assurance' suggesting that less rigorous age checking may be sufficient. ICO have
probably created a difficulty for companies to earn a living, as the no data slurping requirement for kids may prove attractive to adults too. Users may prove a little reluctant to 'assure' their age.
Nabab LLB A film is banned in Bangladesh for making the police look bad
Hard 18s 4th Jan
Muscle 2019 UK thriller by Gerard Johnson set for UK Blu-ray and DVD release on 1st February 2021 with a real sex orgy
Video Nasties
Suffer Little Children Gav Crimson details the overblown press coverage of the seizure and legal actions against a horror film featuring
child actors at the time of the Video Nasties moral panic
UK Internet 14th Jan
Harmful Online Communications Open Rights Group respond to Law Commission proposals to extend hate crime definitions to pander
to the easily offended
Online Anonymity MPs line up to call for identity checks for all internet users without giving so much as two seconds of thought to consider
the consequences for businesses and internet users
US News
11th Jan
Updated Elites Trump Democracy Democrat politicians and internet giants join in a massive coordinated
action to cancel Donald Trump, his supporters, and anyone else with right leaning views
Privacy
Extract: Sharing your data Details and comments about the WhatsApp announcement that it will be
handing over your personal data to Facebook
TV 9th Jan
#GodToo Irish cleric takes offence at TV joke about God being implicated in a sexual harassment scandal
Lap Dancing 14th Jan
Miserable Blackpool Council disgracefully wants to set a council mandated monopoly for one sex shop, and for a ban for new and replacement
lap dancing clubs
Internet Porn 11th Jan
Offsite Article:
Fifty Shades of Blame Rough sex porn and BDSM
discussed in article about Grace Millane murder trial
Internet Porn 3rd Jan
Offsite Article:
The New War on Porn How Moral Crusaders, Mainstream Media and Politicians Are
Gunning for XXX
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