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The Moral Panic Film Club – Event Program
The Moral Panic Film Club, February 7th 2014 Where? At The Hackney Attic, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE. How to get there: directions. Tickets are £15 and are available on the Hackney Attic website. Buy your tickets here. PROGRAM 7 pm – Doors open. Welcome, by the Backlash team. The Hackney […]
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 […]
Court of Appeal slash jail term for extreme porn victim
After they went to his house for an unrelated matter, a man handed over his laptop to police and ended up with a 14 month jail term. This has been cut to 4 months by the Court of Appeal. Backlash are seeking a transcript of that hearing, which does not […]
Children should be taught about porn on the net
Children should be taught about porn on the net. A statement of the bleeding obvious, one might have thought – but not to Michael Gove. Now the Telegraph are ratcheting up the pressure, with a ‘Better Sex Education’ campaign. NSPCC ‘research’* commissioned by The Telegraph claims to show that in […]
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 […]
‘Rape porn’ ban would not close any supposed loophole
Myles Jackman, legal adviser to Backlash, has written a forensic analysis of the case for banning rape porn for Lexis®PSL Crime, reproduced on his blog. Here is a key section: How do the Government’s proposals fit in with the law on the possession of extreme pornography? In brief: they don’t. […]