Ofcom Discussion

(26-05-2014 20:36 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  Does bsx have audio description? The mind boggles

No, shopping channels are excluded from the requirement.

(26-05-2014 20:36 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  Does bsx have audio description? The mind boggles

I keep imagining the TV sign language people.

Don't think Ofcom will be happy until were back in Victorian England.

Looks as if Ofcom does not always get its way without a fight.

The CV of barrister Iain Steele of the Blackstone Chambers lists several cases where he has acted for Ofcom. They won the cases, but the interesting thing it that both cases went to Court and both related to apparent bias. (That makes it official - Ofcom is unbiased).

Quote:R (DM Digital Television Limited) v Office of Communications [2014] EWHC 961
(Admin) Acted for Ofcom in a judicial review challenge to its decision to impose a £105,000 fine for breaching the regulatory code of conduct. The Court dismissed an apparent bias challenge based on the presence of Ofcom employees who had investigated the case remaining present with the panel of decision-makers during their deliberations.

R (Satellite Entertainment Limited) v Office of Communications (Court of Appeal, July 2013) Acted for Ofcom in a judicial review challenge to its decision to impose a £130,000 fine on a broadcaster for breaching the regulatory code of conduct. The case raised issues concerning apparent bias and Article 1 of Protocol No.1 to the ECHR.

This link might take keen readers to the CV.

Health warning - do not have a go at the legal system or a barrister.

Ofcom replied to me after so many complaints about male genitals allowed on tv yet females are blurred out..

Ofcom stated that the showing of male and female genitals would not normally warrant investigation by our review process..Although you think the representation of female genitals is unfair this in itself would not warrant investigation by Ofcom..Please do not hesitate to contact us etc,etc.

So either Ofcom or lying or the Folks who make these docu's are not aware of these rules..We have been trying to find out who the lass is on Sunny Beach who had her genitals blurred out but close long explicit penis shots were shown which was nothing to do with docu..In this docu she did not care throughout and stripped on the bar,,if we can get hold of her and ask her we can prove Channel 4 are sexist double standards .A long time ago erections were banned on UK tv now they are allowed when Ofcom arrived so not showing female genitals is tv's last taboo.

As I've said to all including Ofcom and tv channels i will not give up till i die complaining and the babe channels doing anymore will never happen if lipslips are going to result in fines.

(31-05-2014 08:10 )gunnar Wrote:  Don't think Ofcom will be happy until were back in Victorian England.

It is 7.30 am, On Italian and German TV there is a girl ramming 2 fingers up her arse. On UK TV there is a girl wrapped up in bra and knickers wearing a dress your grandmother would wear!
How is this an equal and fair Europe?

Meanwhile in the UK the temperatures are Scorchio, there are girls walking around in bikini tops in town centres. But hey bikinis on adult channels during the day, god forbid!

Fuck off offcom with your shitty rules, you're not protecting anyone. The rest of Europe has much more relaxed rules and their society has much less sex related problems than our country.

Thought I'd post my first post in this thread.

I have to say back in 2013 when I heard the hand-thong had been banned I was devastated. That was the few things that got me watching, and I found it very arousing. Suddenly the shows became quite boring and of course bleeding Ofcom was to blame.

Leave the Babe Shows alone! All you've done is make them worse and worse and worse - I get very little night's entertainment these days on the channels because of how they've treated the channels. You can find full nudity on TV at night that certainly isn't covered, but yet you make the babes cover their genitalia? We can well do without Ofcom. If parents don't want their children watching these shows, they can quite easily lock them. If documentaries can have exposure then so can the channels. The sooner this shit corporation goes down, the better, I say.

(11-06-2014 23:39 )hatessexistofcon Wrote:  A long time ago erections were banned on UK tv now they are allowed when Ofcom arrived so not showing female genitals is tv's last taboo.

Since when, outside of medical and sex educational programmes, have erections been allowed? Give me some examples.

(21-06-2014 16:03 )JuanKerr Wrote:  

(11-06-2014 23:39 )hatessexistofcon Wrote:  A long time ago erections were banned on UK tv now they are allowed when Ofcom arrived so not showing female genitals is tv's last taboo.

Since when, outside of medical and sex educational programmes, have erections been allowed? Give me some examples.

The last time watched The Adult Channel there were lots of shots of erections. Erect genitalia is classified in sex works as R18.
Ofcon allow it on UK TV.
I cannot vouch for the gay channels but I'm sure that equal opportunities would prevail on them.
It shows the utter hypocrisy of our television censor (and our government).

I remember surprised comments many years ago about an apparent change in Ofcom policy when there was an outbreak of erections on encrypted channels. It may even have been on this forum, but it was many years ago when Rooney had hair. It seems to have been a false dawn, with occasional shortlived outbreaks, possibly when a more adventurous editor got the cutting room keys.

When it comes to encrypted channels Ofcom seems to take a more relaxed view than the free to view ones. The odd transgression does not result in a 3000 word denunciation and summons to Riverside House. That's not to say they approve of transgressions, but they regard boundaries as flexible, like the Ukrainian border, and they know that for every 2 second glimpse of a hardon another 10 shows will play safe.

The difference is held open shots never happen by accident while it is the absence of an erection that is unnatural, and film crew have to go to unusual lengths to avoid showing one.

Ironically while women are offended by images of vaginas (as well as breasts, legs, bums, slutty clothing, anything that might raise the erotic temperature or make them feel inadequate) it is erections that cause fear in some women.

Ofcom get it completely upside down, tolerating what (some) women fear while clamping down on what they just find embarrassing.