Ofcom Discussion

(22-10-2012 17:30 )continental19 Wrote:  Well you'll have a laugh at this I emailed Ofcom a few months back about there ridicules stance on the Adult channels. When I mentioned about the 9pm watershed there response to me was that they don't believe children don't go straight to bed at that time!! In otherwords they are saying that the watershed really means nothing to them at all? I also mentioned about the farce concerning the classification of the adult channels being classed under the umbrella as shopping channels. The answer they gave me was not convincing at all to say the least.
You talk about double standards, when the clock strikes 9pm a woman can bare all for a medical programme, yet when it's for sexual pleasure the 9pm watershed doesn't mean the same thing!! What a load of Bollocks!! It's one rule for one programme and one rule for another it's a bloody joke!! These guys couldn't regulate bath water let alone programmes

I have no great argument about kids not going to bed on the dot of 9, but as an adult I expect to be able to watch grown up programming in the evening and not have to worry about children I have never met.

An important part of any legal system is that it should be knowable, yet Ofcom steadfastly refuse to say what is permitted when and apply double standards.

Channel 4 can get away with a few minutes after 9 if they give a warning. Five showed The Book of Eli yesterday (huge heap of shite) and 5 or 10 minutes in a mans arm was severed by a sharp knife - impitable behaviour - before about 5 bandits were hacked to death. The film started at 9. Film channels routinely show the strongest available horror and gore from 10pm with impunity (Hostel, Saw, Audition). Charlie Brooker had a sketch on the 10 OClock show where he said C**T many times, no problem.

This suggests a gentle phasing in of grown up material between 9 and 10, and after 10 anything goes. But Ofcom wont commit to this and the few guidelines there are - guidelines, not rules - prevent the babes from even using moderate sexual language until midnight.

So thats vague and unknowable rules, a transition of 1 hour or less for all TV except babe channels, a 3 hour transition of babe channels and restrictions evan after that.

No basis for a legal system.