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UK Censorship Groucho Marx got it right when playing dictator Rufus T Firefly in Duck Soup. He clearly had Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in mind If any form of pleasure is exhibited, Freedoms are eroding rapidly in the UK. This section covers UK censorship news particularly where it is attributed to UK government and politicians. Note that additional UK Censorship issues will be covered in other sections of Melon Farmers Thanks to Freeworld for the quote |
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| Extreme Porn | Book Burning Dangerous Pictures Act protest at the British Library | 6th May |
| Extreme Porn | Howes About a Select Committee Calling for a select committee to consider dangerous pictures | 6th May |
| Extreme Porn | Playing the Victim A play depicting forbidden acts and dangerous knee jerk legislation | 3rd May |
| Extreme Porn | Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid House of Lords clears dawn raids for the Dangerous Pictures police | 1st May |
| Extreme Porn | Extremely Mean Minds Hard luck for those jailed in the UK for owning an image of a legal act | 30th Apr |
| UK News | Contempt of Court Lawyer on trial for accusing court of injustice | 30th Apr |
| UK News | Menaced by the Authorities Blogger fined for minor 'menacing' comment | 30th Apr |
| UK News | Currified Ratings Currys adds to the confusion of games ratings | 30th Apr |
| Parliament | Online Rating Games ELSPA boss reckons BBFC will be overwhelmed by online games | 30th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Dangerously Obscene Law Dangerous Pictures Amendments to be debated at 3rd reading | 29th Apr |
| Parliament | Junk Law Rejected Parliament rejects bill to restrict junk food advertising to post-watershed | 29th Apr |
| UK News | Anchor's Away Popular Anchor Bay forum has been closed | 27th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Extreme Criminalisation Register reports 'extreme porn' law could criminalise millions | 27th Apr |
| Parliament | Campaign for a Drear Britain Nutters attract MPs to the anti-lap dancing cause | 26th Apr |
| Customs Watch | Customary Bollox HM Thieves and exercise refuse to reveal reasons for seizure of DVDs | 26th Apr |
| Gov | Bare Knuckle Fighting Media Minister to have a go at YouTube | 26th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Violent Pornography Debate Niki Flynn spanks the Government | 25th Apr |
| Parliament | Labour Dragon Lanced Lords fight for St George, free speech and jokes about gays | 23rd Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Imminent Danger Lords Amendment to scrap Dangerous Pictures clauses fails | 23rd Apr |
| UK News | Traumatic Censorship Contributing to the hype for Three and Out | 22nd Apr |
| UK News | On the Verge of a Police State Documentary suffers bureaucracy in Leeds | 20th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Real Improvement Dangerous Pictures amendment to not include staged images | 19th Apr |
| UK News | Inciting New EU Laws EU agree to offence of inciting terrorism via the internet | 19th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Extreme Urgency Backlash Appeals for letters to lords to amend Dangerous Pictures Act | 18th Apr |
| Extreme Porn | Chequered Career News of the World publishes dangerous pictures of Max Mosley | 17th Apr |
| UK News: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Latest |
| Offsite linked articles |
| UK Petitions & Campaigns |
| Scottish Greens: Policy to end restrictions on the adult consensual sex trade (Nov 05) |
| Lib Dems: A Liberal View Charles Kennedy on pornography laws (Oct 05) |
| Lib Dems: Censorship and Freedom of Expression (pdf March 04) |
| Lib Dems: Talking Shop (Sex shops that is) (Sep 02) |
| Hall Of Shame "I don't believe in censorship BUT...." |
| Hall Of Fame The good guys |
| Parliament Watch: 2000 2001 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Latest |
| Government Censorship News 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Latest |
| Extreme Porn News: 2005 2006 2007 2008 Latest |
| Consultation: Non-photographic depictions of child abuse (12th March 2008) |
| Extreme Porn: Criminal Injustice & Immigration Bill 2nd Reading Debate (19th Oct 2007) |
| Extreme Porn: Published Responses to the Government Proposals (2005-2006) |
| Extreme Porn: A summary of Scottish Extreme Pornography Consultation Responses (April 2006) |
| Extreme Porn: A legal opinion on the Extreme Pornography Proposals by Rabinder Singh QC (Dec 2005) |
| Extreme Porn: Government Consultation on Extreme Pornography Responses (May 2006) |
| Intimidating the BBC. News about the Iraqi War not pro-Government enough (Feb 2004) |
| Sexual Offences Act 2004 (Jan 2004) |
| Parliament Watch: Blasphemy (June 2003) |
| XXX, a Home Office Comment (May 2003) |
| Communications Bill 2002 (Nov 2002) |
| Latest from the Department of Culture, Media, Sport and Proscription (Feb 2001) |
| UK Law |
| Possession of Pornography and The Dangerous Pictures Act (May 2008) |
| Communications Law State spying in Britain that would make the Stasi proud (Feb 2008) |
| Hated Law Blasphemy, racial and religious hatred law (Dec 2007) |
| Lap-dance protesters need to know the law (Dec 2007) |
| Outraging Public Decency Where the law says you can have sex (Nov 2007) |
| Human Rights Links to the Human Rights Act 1998 & case history updates (Oct 2006) |
| Issues with the Sexual Offences Act of 2004 (June 2005) |
| High Court Judgement confirming that R18 by mail order is illegal (offsite May 2005) |
| Proscription of Satellite Channels Used by the Government to ban channels (Feb 2005) |
| Court of Appeal judgement from R vs Stephane Laurent Perrin UK Internet jurisdiction (offsite March 2002) |
| Video Recordings Act: A detailed view (May 2001) |
| The Legalisation of Hardcore High Court review of VAC decision to pass hardcore at R18 (offsite May 2000) |
| Legal Debate Mail order R18s, satellite proscription etc |
| Enforcement | Customs Watch news about the enforcement agency with an attitude problem |
| Customs Seizures since the change of guidelines in 2000 | |
| Censorship the Corollary of Corruption Part 1 Part 2 The serialisation of a novel by Mike Freeman | |
| Piss Poor Standards at Derby Trading Standards (Oct 2005) | |
| Customs Operation Star Trek Child porn raid initiated for videos featuring 21 year olds (Sept 2005) | |
| Non Consensual Punishment Crown Persecution Service on spanking (Dec 2003) | |
| Model Persecutions Cheshire police excel in persecution (July 2003) |
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