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News Thursday 31st March...

Lethal Weapon 2

Season 2: Episode 33: Lethal Weapon 2
Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge investigates the case of a crazed censor vs a crazed cop

BBFC Daily

Daily UK Ratings from the BBFC
Hardcore Henry, Inner Demons, When Animals Dream

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: The 'Burbs
1989 USA comedy by Joe Dante just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: Dune and Blue Velvet Box Set
Double feature by David Lynch just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Middle East

Update: A poor choice of prospective menbers
Turkey demands that Germany censors satirical YouTube video about Erdogan

Sex Shop News

Enlargement pills for a Little Chef
Plans for a new sex shop in St Helens

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: A history of adult animation
As Seth Rogen's NSFW CGI comedy Sausage Party reminds us, things like anthropomorphized food need not only exist for the delight of children

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Cutting Edge Episode 33
Lethal Weapon 2

Ferman's crusade continues

Help fund Cutting Edge: Season 2

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Quick Trims Episode 28:
Secondhand Lions on YouTube

BBFC cuts for 18 rated VHS and DVD

David Cameron's internet porn ban

The Canute Consultation
Government consults on age verification for porn and the censorship of foreign websites that don't comply
Consultation document [pdf]

Latest News:

Another Migrant to Germany
XBiz Europe pulls its business conference out of London in favour of Berlin as there is very little of the adult business left in Britain

Offsite Articles:

Not Just TV-Like
Jerry Barnett notes that the government's new porn censorship proposal is a lot wider than just Video on Demand and will require robust age verification for the likes of Google Image Search and Instagram

Plans to restrict access to pornography are motivated by nothing and will achieve nothing
David Cameron wants to protect teenagers from the wild world of sex on the internet - but this generation is more sexually responsible than we tend to think. By Clare Bowden

Is this the most inane government consultation of all time?
The government's online porn consultation asks people how to implement imaginary powers to deal with an imaginary problem in order to create a regulator they scrapped 3 months ago.

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Tony Bear explains UK video censorship to Lady Bear

In December 2014 the UK introduced new regulations to censor online videos. Tony Bear explains the new rules to Lady Bear. She doesn't like it. If you don't like it either, find out more at Backlash.

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sfc.org.uk - sexual freedom

UK Internet

1st Mar

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: British fetish film-makers are organising against censorship
30 British fetish film-makers met to discuss UK porn censorship, particularly the news that at the start of 2016 video-on-demand regulator ATVOD was shut down and re-absorbed into its parent body, Ofcom

Movie News

31st Mar

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: A history of adult animation
As Seth Rogen's NSFW CGI comedy Sausage Party reminds us, things like anthropomorphized food need not only exist for the delight of children

Diary

30th Mar

Diary: The Toxic Avenger Musical
April 22-May 21, 2016 at the Southwark Playhouse in London

Cuts and Bans

28th Mar

Secondhand Lions
Cutting Edge Quick Trims Episode 28. BBFC category cuts for a PG rated cinema release

Cuts and Bans

27th Mar

Shopping: Sex Murder Art: The Films Of Jorg Buttgereit
German horror collection by Jörg Buttgereit set for US Blu-ray release on 12th April 2016

Cuts and Bans

Shopping: Schramm
German film by Jörg Buttgereit set for US DVD and Blu-ray release on 12th April 2016

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Is film censorship dead?
The World Wide Web once promised a digital utopia but many nations have doubled down to outlaw content that is morally offensive and politically unwelcome.

Cuts and Bans

26th Mar

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: BBFC Podcast Episode 46
An interesting episode about Natural Born Killers at the BBFC

BBFC News

25th Mar

Lost Business
BBFC bows out of rating cinema adverts

Asia Pacific

Banglasia
Film banned in Malaysia for depicting gay lifestyles

Middle East

31st Mar

Update: A poor choice of prospective menbers
Turkey demands that Germany censors satirical YouTube video about Erdogan

Asia Pacific

30th Mar

Power Grab
Indonesia Broadcasting Commission demands the power to censor TV programmes before they air

East Europe

Update: Propaganda Control Center
Center for Monitoring Propaganda and Disinformation Online Set to Open in Russia

Asia Pacific

Update: Blocking the foreign internet
China publishes draft proposal for the authorities to block all websites not registered in China

Asia Pacific

Update: Bowing out
Editor of prominent Chinese newspaper resigns saying he's been bowing to government for so long, he can't stand it anymore

Asia Pacific

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Why China banned Winnie the Pooh and why it matters
A round up of recent Chinese internet censorship. By Jeremy Luedi

Control Freaks

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: How we're unwittingly letting robots censor the Web
The world goes mad with copyright seeking bots swarming over the internet without anyone monitoring whether they are being fair or not

US News

29th Mar

Update: Small victory
US small ads website, Backpage.com, wins appeal with the court agreeing that the website is not responsible for the posts added by users

Extreme Porn

27th Mar

Suspended prison sentence
Another victim of dangerous bestiality pictures

ASA Watch

30th Mar

Taboo word
Advert censor bans posters for fashion brand as the name includes the world child

UK TV News

29th Mar

Easter bunnies with fangs
A few whingers take to twitter to complain about a TV showing of Watership Down brutally destroying their safe space warren

Nutter Watch US

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Speechless
Another attempt at technology to self censor movies for the easily offended

PC News

27th Mar

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Comment Isn't Free
The Guardian is a little slow to see that its brand of PC extremism isn't so popular with its internet commenters

UK News

25th Mar

No wonder people are turning to the likes of Donald Trump
Man ludicrously arrested over non threatening tweet referencing the worldwide debate about support for terrorism

ASA Watch

24th Mar

Daily Mail targeted at aged readers, not youngsters
Daily Mail let off by the advert censor for trailing a 15 rated ghost film before a One Direction music video

Advert News

23rd Mar

Sexist and violent and funny
Australian advert censor whinges about a witty advertising board

Nutter Watch US

Unprotected
Religious vandals censor advert on back of a removals van

Asia Pacific

21st Mar

Update: Police Suck
New Zealand police report Wicked Campervans to the censors over unpolitically correct slogans

Sex Shop News

31st Mar

Enlargement pills for a Little Chef
Plans for a new sex shop in St Helens

Sex for Fun

27th Mar

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: The Daily Mail recommends
Swingers hold fundraising orgy at Eureka private sex resort in Kent

World P4P

26th Mar

Update: Pretty Women Beware!
Italian city of Salerno introduces nasty law criminalising women for 'violating urban decorum'

World P4P

24th Mar

Update: Registered as unsafe
German cabinet approves new law requiring sex workers to register with the state

Sex Shop News

23rd Mar

Update: Responding to Blunt Criticism
Government reverses its homophobic ban on poppers

Nutter Watch US

Update: Trivialising Torture
Morality in Media write to the UN with the ludicrous claim that pornography is a form of torture

World News

18th Mar

Euphemism Service Charge
Austria implements repressive new law requiring ALL customer services to be recorded on a till receipt

US News

Update: Unsafe measures
California's health and safety will take another vote on shutting down local porn producers

UK News

17th Mar

Commented: PC Bandwagoning
Mayoral candidate puts his own morality above the livelihoods and entertainment wishes of hundreds of residents and proposes to ban all adult entertainment in Bristol

Diary

30th Mar

Diary: The Toxic Avenger Musical
April 22-May 21, 2016 at the Southwark Playhouse in London

Diary

24th Mar

Diary: Easter Hammer-thon
26th -27th March 2016 on the Horror Channel

Diary

7th Mar

Diary: Laugh Your Head Off...Or Else
March 2016 on the Horror Channel

Recent Releases

31st Mar

Shopping: The 'Burbs
1989 USA comedy by Joe Dante just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Shopping: Dune and Blue Velvet Box Set
Double feature by David Lynch just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Shopping: Cherry Falls
2000 USA horror mystery thriller by Geoffrey Wright just released on US Blu-ray

Recent Releases

30th Mar

Shopping: The City of the Dead
1960 UK horror mystery thriller by John Llewellyn Moxey just released on US Blu-ray with 2 versions

Recent Releases

Shopping: The Sicilian
1987 USA action crime drama by Michael Cimino, the Director's Cut has just been released on US Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Shopping: National Lampoon's Animal House
1978 USA comedy by John Landis just released on UK DVD

Recent Releases

29th Mar

Shopping: All Hell Breaks Loose
2014 USA action comedy horror by Jeremy Garner just released on US DVD

Recent Releases

Shopping: Death Warrant
1990 Canada / USA action crime mystery by Deran Sarafian just released on UK DVD and Blu-ray

Recent Releases

Weekly US DVD and Blu-ray Releases
The City of the Dead, Felicity, Pigs

New Listings

31st Mar

Shopping: The Sweeney: Paris
2015 France / UK action drama by Benjamin Rocher set for UK DVD release on 20th June 2016

New Listings

27th Mar

Shopping: Sex Murder Art: The Films Of Jorg Buttgereit
German horror collection by Jörg Buttgereit set for US Blu-ray release on 12th April 2016

New Listings

Shopping: Schramm
German film by Jörg Buttgereit set for US DVD and Blu-ray release on 12th April 2016

New Listings

26th Mar

Shopping: The Sand
2015 USA Sci-Fi horror by Isaac Gabaeff set for UK DVD release on 25th April 2016

New Listings

Shopping: Diary Of A Deadbeat: The Story Of Jim VanBebber
2015 USA action historical horror by Victor Bonacore set for US Blu-ray release on 12th April 2016

New Listings

Shopping: Yakuza Apocalypse
2015 Japan action horror by Takashi Miike set for UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 2nd May 2016

New Listings

Shopping: The Hotel
2014 USA horror thriller by Derrick Granado set for UK DVD release on 25th April 2016

New Listings

Shopping: Helix
2015 Canada action Sci-Fi mystery by Eric Petey set for UK DVD release on 11th April 2016

New Listings

25th Mar

Shopping: The Hexecutioners
2015 Canada horror by Jesse Thomas Cook set for UK DVD release on 30th May 2016

New and Offers

31st Mar

Parisian Pleasure Seekers (English)
Selected releases at Hot Movies

New and Offers

30th Mar

Spy Babes #1
Selected releases at Your Choice

New and Offers

29th Mar

Being Riley
Selected releases at Adult DVD Empire

New and Offers

28th Mar

Women Of The Middle East
A mainstream news article picks up on the latest in porn

New and Offers

27th Mar

Batman vs Superman XXX
The porn parody seems to be receiving a better reception than the original

New and Offers

26th Mar

Simply Porn DVD
Latest releases from Girlfriends Films, Sweety

New and Offers

25th Mar

Roommate Obsession
Selected releases at British Porn

New and Offers

24th Mar

Private
Latest Galleries from Private and Private Galleries

New and Offers

23rd Mar

Women Seeking Women 126
Selected releases at Simply Porn

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