Author: Nick
Dominatrix beats online video regulator into submission
MEDIA INFORMATION: IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 August 2014 DOMINATRIX BEATS ONLINE VIDEO REGULATOR INTO SUBMISSION Ofcom spanks its internet video agency, ATVOD, for treating a small independent erotic website like a competitor to TV. A dominatrix and performance artist dealt a blow to the Authority for Television on Demand (ATVOD) this […]
Index on Censorship: Criminalising Kink
Jonathan Lindsell provides an excellent overview of recent moves to extend the extreme pornography ban and other attempts to stifle freedom of sexual expression by the current Government. Backlash is quoted as follows: [C]ampaigners contend the draft law’s language is too ambiguous. A policy researcher from anti-censorship organisation Backlash argues: […]
Backlash submits written evidence to Criminal Justice and Courts Bill Committee
Backlash has submitted expert evidence in response to an amendment in the new Criminal Justice and Courts bill expanding the definition of extreme pornography to include fictional portrayals of rape. The summary argument is as follows: The amendment to ban ‘rape pornography’ risks criminalising more than a million otherwise law-abiding […]
Letter to MPs on Criminalising “Rape Porn”
This week, the following letter was sent to a number of MPs and Lords, to raise concerns over the planned “rape porn” legislation. This was sent on behalf of Backlash and an alliance of other sexual freedom campaigns: Sex & Censorship, Consenting Adult Action Network, Campaign Against Censorship and the Sexual […]
Backlash’s Moral Panic Film Club – 7 Feb 2014
Update, 19th January – The full event program can be found here: The Moral Panic Film Club – Program Did you know that you could potentially be prosecuted for taking consensual, private pictures of yourself or your partner, if the government deems them to be obscene? Join us in an […]
David Cameron: Censorship Creep
2014 will see the roll-out of Cameron’s Interner Filter. Billed as blocking porn, the policy is already being used to restrict access to LGBT health and lifestyle material, child protection websites and other forms of political expression. This was predictable because there is no settled definition of what constitutes pornography. […]
Backlash’s Moral Panic Film Club
Join us in an evening of disgust and moral panic to raise funds to support Backlash UK’s academic, legal and campaigning resources defending freedom of sexual expression. On Friday February 7th, 2014, we are holding a night of previously banned or heavily edited films, talks, open discussion and music. All […]
Backlash against Crown Prosecution Service’s ‘homophobic witch-hunt’
Obscenity law expert fears CPS using porn laws to persecute gay men The CPS is targeting gay men for looking at legal adult pornography, an experienced defence solicitor warns. The Crown Prosecution Service pursued a gay man for possession of alleged indecent pornographic images over a 580-day ordeal. They continued […]
Sex & Censorship campaign event in London
A recently launched campaign to protect freedom on the internet is holding a public event in London: The Sex & Censorship campaign announces a public meeting against censorship. This will take place in central London on Monday 23rd September at 7pm. The flyer below has full details about the location […]
Intimidation within the law
There has been widespread uproar at the 9-hour detention of David Miranda, the partner of investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. Crooked Timber has a useful discussion of the Terrorism Act 2000 which seems custom-designed to allow abuse by UK border authorities whenever its politically convenient. What is significant about this case […]