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News Friday 3rd July...

UK Government Gov

The Terrorist Hunters
UK governments bans book
Terrorist Hunters book

World Censorship Asia Pacific

Update: Green Protest
Chinese protest against Green Dam internet filter
China banned page

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Update: Crap Apple
Apple ludicrously set themselves up as censors of every image shared by users
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Update: Unnatural Offence Naturalised
Indian court overturns law banning homosexual relationships
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Fifth Time Lucky
Worthing Pillow Talk granted sex shop licence
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UK Censorship UK News

Offsite: Cleared of Obscenity But
Another victim of an archaic law
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Offsite: Moral Panic Part 765
The Sun doesn’t shine on The Antichrist
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South Asia South Asia

Censorship Crime
Indian film censor blames drop in quality of movies on censorship
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World Censorship Bollox World

Petition: Support Roxanne Hiller
Petition and Facebook to free Roxanne from UAE jail
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World Censorship Bollox World

Update: Cultural Rape
Up to 7500 forced marriages reported in Britain in 2008
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Sex Sells Gay News

Update: Dressed to Repress
Philippines lady boys arrested at party in Saudi
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Control Freaks Control Freaks

Update: Linked to Copyright
US Judge suggests banning bloggers from linking to newspaper sites
Associated Press

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American Swing
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Thursday 2nd July...

EU News
West Europe

Update: Nonsense Inspired Law
Ahern claims to have drafted blasphemy clause so that it is virtually unusable

US News
US News

Update: Extreme Sentence
Rob Black and Lizzie Borden sentenced to a year in jail

World Censorship
Asia Pacific

Update: Lost Credibility
New Zealand Whinges at Australian film certificate

World Censorship
Asia Pacific

Son of a Bitch
South Korean cartoonist sued over hidden dig at president

P4P Crimes
p4p

Trafficking in Myths
That's the trouble with christians, they believe any old nonsense they hear

TV Censorship
Advert News

Update: Temptation to Censor
ASA Advertising censor offended by tempting ice cream

US News
US News

Getting Screwed in Nevada
Law suit against trumped up reasons for not allowing sale of legal brothel

Liberty Watch
Liberty News

Update: ID Cards Mandatory for Passport Holders
£1000 fines for not keeping UK up to date with one's address

Sex Sells
Gay News

Update: Unnatural Religion
Churches consider India's proposed legalisation of gay sex

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Sex for Fun

Police Fret
First swingers club in South Korea

Control Freaks
Control Freaks

Update: Shared Legitimacy
Pirate Bay bought out by reformists

TV Censorship
Internet TV

Update: Joost Too Few Customers
Joost backs off from providing internet TV service

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Burkha Hostility
Terrorists threaten France over its hostility to burkhas

Wednesday 1st July...

Australia News
Aussie News

Update: Conroy is an Embarrassment
ICANN says that Australia will embarrassed itself over internet filtering

World Censorship
East Europe

Update: Mouldy Orange
Possession of pornography is made illegal in Ukraine

UK Censorship
UK News

Update: When You're Chewing on Life's Gristle
Censorial Glasgow finally relent for a showing of Life of Brian

UK Government
Gov

Update: Beyer's Board of Film Classification
Gordon Brown proposes nutters' rights of appeal against BBFC decisions

World Censorship
Asia Pacific

Update: Green Dam Damned
China declares a delay to the mandatory pre-installation of internet filter

UK Censorship
UK News

Offsite: Thinking Out Aloud
These obscenity laws should be abolished

Joystick
VSC News

Offsite: Terrifying Pictograms
The Edge interview ELSPA's Michael Rawlinson about VSC and PEGI

BBFC Cuts
Cuts and Bans

BBFC Took their Pound of Flesh
Old Cuts to Castle Freak

US News
US News

Update: Signs of a Victory
Kansas law banning adult roadside advertising delayed

World Censorship
World News

Ma Cheri
Cheri actresses call for the legalisation of prostitution in the US

UK Censorship
Bollox Britain

Offsite: Ban-happy Brighton
Drinkers the latest target of killjoy campaigners and politicians

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Iran Seeing the Light?
Iran suggests backing off from capital punishment for apostasy

Tuesday 30th June...

World Censorship
Middle East

Stuck on Repression
British artist flees Turkey after Erdogan insult case re-opened

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BBFC News

Comment: Straight Hype
Oh my god! I agree with the BBFC

World Censorship
Africa News

Morocco Undignified
Morocco fines 3 newspapers for criticising Gaddafi

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A Licence to Enjoy Life
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Texas Bar Raid
Courthouse protest at police over reaction during gay bar raid

World Censorship
World News

Update: Malignant Government
China declares 3 month campaign against prostitution

World Censorship
Bollox World

Golden Opportunity
Kuwaiti police investigate magic spells used to rob gold shops

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Predictable Nonsense
Astrologer arrested for predicting the fall of the Sri Lankan president

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Cold Comfort
Steady flow of sexual assaults by clergy of the Church of Sweden

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: De-educating Pakistan
Schools continue to fall to bombing attacks
 

Monday 29th June...

UK Censorship
UK News

Update: Cleared of Obscenity
Girls (Scream) Aloud sorry not obscene in terms of its likely audience

Beyer Watch
Beyer Watch

Mediawatch-UK
Inglorious moral decency campaigners

US News
US News

Updated: Censor Fight Rated PG-13
US advert censor falls out with US film censor

UK Censorship
Bollox Britain

Losing Confidence in the Police
MPs tell police that their tactics are criminalising protest

Sex Sells
UK News

Updated: No Fun in Glasgow
Lap dancing under licence threat from council snitches

Sex Sells
Gay News

Update: Law Review
Gay rights supporters protest in India in support of decriminalisation

Sex Sells
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Councillor with a Religious Disability
Barmouth councillor suspended over religious inspired anti gay comments

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Somali Pits of Humanity
Somali man stoned to death

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Illegal Advice
Women are predictably being stiffed at UK sharia courts

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Defence Militia
People fight back against the Pakistan Taliban

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Offsite: Dangerous Cult
Scientology’s Crimes And Abuses Are Finally Hitting The Fan

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Offsite: Burnt Alive
Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings

Sunday 28th June...

BBFC Cuts
Cuts and Bans

Driven to Censorship
Old Cuts to Mario Andreacchio's Fair Game

Sex Sells
Gay News

Updated: Gay Censorship
Lithuania's parliament pass bill banning gay information from public places

World Censorship
Middle East

Travel Warning
Man jailed in Dubai for Victoria Beckham cancer awareness t-shirt

EU News
West Europe

Appealing Assets
Topless celebs on the beach are fair game for the Spanish media

EU News
West Europe

Appeal Flags
Appeal fails over prosecution for 'die Fahnen hoch' t-shirt

Extreme Porn
Extreme Porn

Extreme Add-On
Dangerous Pictures used to add to the charge list for more serious offences

TV Censorship
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Jeans Undone
New York Calvin Klein poster replaced after whinges

Sex Sells
Gay News

Updated: Less Pink
The Pink Paper ends print version in favour of an online presence

World Censorship
World News

Diary: Hot d'Or Awards 2009
Return of French adult awards show for the 20th anniversary of Hot Video magazine

Sex Sells
UK News

ST's Showing
Lap dancing coming to Wilmslow in Cheshire

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Religion on the NHS
Doctors ask to be given right to discuss spiritual issues with patients

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Discriminating School
Jewish school told that its selection criteria breach Race Discrimination Act

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Updated: More to Hate
Westboro nutters turn to unsettled scores with Israelites

Saturday 27th June...

World Censorship
Middle East

Update: Peace Undisturbed
Turkish author acquitted of blasphemy in his novel The Daughters of Islam

US News
US News

Pretty as a Swastika
Marilyn Manson finds that Swastika is a banned word

Sex Sells
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Updated: Hot Off the Press
Apple introduce a 17 rating to its store and the nutters are 'furious'

World Censorship
Asia Pacific

Update: Secret Trial
Amnesty International criticises Thailand for secret lese majeste trial of red shirt protestor

South Asia
South Asia

Censorial Tits
India blocks adult cartoon porn

P4P Crimes
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Update: American Mean Mindedness
Rhode Island passes law to criminalise the buying of sex

Sex Sells
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Payback
Mail order porn seller escapes jail but has proceeds confiscated

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Just Breasts
Malmo women win the right to go topless at the city's swimming pools

World Censorship
Bollox World

Travel Warning
Asian expats arrested in Kuwait for hotel room sex

Liberty Watch
Liberty News

Indian Identity
India looks to ID cards for its 1.1 billion people

Control Freaks
Control Freaks

Update: A Conflict of Shared Interests
Justice may have been done, but it is hardly seen to have been done

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Give it a Rest!
Nutters get violent over a Jerusalem car park opening on the sabbath

Religious Watch
Religion Watch

Update: Conversion to Reversion
Indian government looks to repeal abused anti-conversion law

 

   Diary:  Mutilation and Grilling...
 
Media March in Radio 4 debate about Antichrist

Antichrist posterThe Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
Wednesday 24 June at 8pm

The co-founder of nutter group Media March, Miranda Suit, will be taking part in The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 24 June at 8pm.

The subject is the film Antichrist by Lars von Trier, which has just been passed uncut with an 18 certificate by the BBFC.

This film is said to be the most shocking ever seen at the Cannes Film Festival and provoked disgust and revulsion among seasoned critics, say Miranda and colleague Pippa Smith: It contains gruesome scenes of torture, real sex and a particularly shocking scene of genital self-mutilation. In an act of deep cynicism, the film will be promoted by trailers rated 15.

The pair are inviting their supporters to pray for Miranda who will undoubtedly face a grilling by the panel.

Update: Lost in the Maze

26th June 2009 See article from mediasnoops.wordpress.com
Listen to Moral Maze from bbc.co.uk

Mediamarch self appointed moral guardian Miranda Suit was on the religious biased The Moral Maze on Radio 4 last night debating whether films featuring explicit violence and mutilation should be shown in cinemas.

Ms Suit quoted a lot of subjective evidence which apparently links screen violence to real life violence. But she struggled to convince anyone that watching violence on screen turns normal people into raging psychotic killers. Which neither she or any of her self appointed moral guardian friends can do.

 

   Diary:  A Nose for the Naughty Bits...
 

Jonathan Yeo creates collage of Mary Whitehouse from porn mags

Collage of Cliff Richard and Mary WhitehouseThe Rathbone, Rathbone Place, Soho London
15 May – 25 June 2009

An artist has produced a portrait of Cliff Richard with morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse out of pornographic cuttings from top-shelf magazines. From a distance, the collage looks harmless. But on closer examination, intimate body parts and various sexual poses become clear.

The portrait goes on display with a price tag of £25,000 at a new West End gallery which opens tonight.

The artist, Jonathan Yeo, told the Standard today he had chosen Mrs Whitehouse, who died in 2001 because he always had a problem with her. Sir Cliff is targeted because anybody who has lived in apparent abstinence deserves a bit of ribbing.

Yeo said: If Mary Whitehouse was still around I hope she would treat this picture as an insult. She equated nudity, bad language and violence as if they were all equally dangerous. I presume Cliff will have a sense of humour about it.

John Beyer, who took over Mrs Whitehouse's campaign, said: To have her memory besmirched is contemptible and passé. He needs to grow up.

But Mrs Whitehouse's son Richard said: It is quite witty really.

 

   Diary:  ETO Show 2009...
 

UK trade only adult show and awards

ETO SHow 2009ETO Show
NEC Forum, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
5th/6th July

The ETO Show is a dedicated trade event for the adult industry. The show will bring together around 80 of the biggest names in the industry under one roof, allowing trade visitors to meet up with a large number of both existing and new suppliers.

The show will be trade only, with no consumer element to distract visitors and exhibitors from their primary purpose – doing business with each other.

Admittance to the show will be entirely free of charge.

The 5th ETO Awards ceremony takes place at the show on the 5th July

 

   Diary:  The Art of the Nasty Film Festival...
 

Book launch and one day film festival

The Art of the Nasty bookRiverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
Saturday 11 July 2009, from 11am till 11pm
Tickets are priced at £25 in advance.

The Art of the Nasty is the most comprehensive collection of video nasty and pre-certificate video sleeves ever reproduced in one volume.

Now fully revised and updated, this brand new FAB Press edition has more than 100 new video nasty sleeves, which were not included in the original pressing, to increase the total number of videos covered in the book to almost 450. In addition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the knowledge gained about this era in the intervening 10 years since the book was first published. And this time the book is being published in hardback format to ensure its long-lasting durability.

The Art of the Nasty explains and conveys the media furore, fear and the rush for political legislation that greeted the arrival of uncensored horror films on video in the UK. The hysteria was generated and fuelled as much by the sleeves and marketing as by the films themselves. In fact, many of the biggest critics of the 'nasties' only ever saw the sleeves. Some of the early video sleeves are indeed an unbelievably bold and over-the-top mixture of outrageous graphics and in-your-face visual shock tactics, guaranteed to offend.

The Art of the Nasty book-launch and all-day film festival has been organised to mark the passing of 25 years since the introduction of the Video Recordings Act and the end of the pre-certification era for home video in the UK.

Five horror and exploitation films from the pre-cert era, all specially chosen for their rarity, and all screened from original release film prints in 35mm or 16mm, along with the UK PREMIERE of an outrageous brand new horror film that perfectly captures the spirit of the video nasty era.

The full line-up:

  • TAKE AN EASY RIDE and THE BRUTE (double-bill),
  • DEATH WEEKEND,
  • SATAN’S SLAVE (uncut export version),
  • EQUINOX
  • BLACK DEVIL DOLL!

Enjoy a shock-filled day out with your friends in London’s most hospitable venue, with its bar and restaurant terrace overlooking the River Thames!

 

   Diary:  GoreZone Weekend of Horror...
 
Horror film festival in London's West End

GoreZone logoGoreZone Weekend of Horror
Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Square, London
31st October & 1st November 2009

Now in its second year, this October hundreds of horror fans will gather together in the heart of London's West End at the prestigious Prince Charles Theatre for two packed days of premiers, previews, personal appearances, signings and surprises all hosted by Emily Booth.

Tickets now on sale at £20 for each day



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Re: Kids Facing 'Ambush Porn' Sexuality is not Evil. We don't need no patronisation. From YouTube, Feb 2007

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  Game Over II

A short film written and co-directed by Gav Salkeld, a long time contributor to Melon Farmers. Written as a spoof on the way the BBFC works with a cut and uncut version showing the effect of censorship on a film about censorship. Both versions should be seen for the full effect. From YouTube, Feb 2007

Game Over II BBFC & Scenes of a violent nature: uncut version
Game Over II BBFC & Scenes of a violent nature: cut version
Game Over II BBFC & Scenes of a violent nature: uncut version (alternative link)

Game Over II
  Keep Jesus Off my Penis

Keep Jesus off my Penis Excellent music video against the religious right. From YouTube July 2006

Keep Jesus Off my Penis
  Manhunt Did It

A short documentary by Nick Thomson about a year of moral panic that ran from July 2004 to August 2005 (bookended by the Manhunt and Hot Coffee controversies). Nick made this documentary to further his filmmaking and to express frustrations with such inanity as the Hot Coffee 'scandal'.

It runs for 21 minutes and is split into five WMV files:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

More information about the film can be found here

Manhunt Did It



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