RE: Aceman's Farewell To Bangbabes
I have several issues here. Firstly (and on the cynical / paranoid side), why should we believe any channel that claims complaints have been backed up by material from this or any other forum. I mean, lets be honest, who, when complaining, is going to say "I saw this happen, and if you want proof you can go to babeshows.co.uk and look it up". I mean, really, someone offended by adult material admits to both watching it, and then trawling websites to find recordings of the evidence, and still claims to be offended by it all - what a load of rubbish. Much more likely it's a false justification by the channel to try and make us see it as necessary removal of clips rather than the heavy-handed response it actually is.
2nd, the sooner Ofcom has it's complaints regime changed the better. The majority of complaints are from rival channels (I believe I read this somewhere, but not sure where), and the rest are from people who "accidentally watched a babe channel just at the moment it did something it wasn't supposed to". Again, what a load of rubbish. The chances of someone who is likely to be offended by this stuff a) accidentally being on an adult channel and b) having the 2 seconds it takes them to realise what they're watching and switch over be the same two seconds an "incident" happens are incredibly small. I mean, even when Amanda has been at her rudest I doubt if there was 2 minutes of actual bad behaviour when the incidents are added together for a particular night. That's two minutes out of say 8 hours of viewing. On 1 out of about 25 channels. So, between all the channels you might get say 5 mins of material on a really rude night. Roughly speaking you have a chance of 0.04% of actually hitting anything worth reporting. Or to put it another way, you have to accidentally switch to a babe show 2400 times before you get something worth reporting.
So, Ofcom should only accept complaints from genuine viewers, who are not employed in the adult industry, and who can supply date and time of the incident. In fact, I'd be prepared to go further and say I'd be happy for Sky to keep a record of what channel changes I make (and when) so that I could prove I was watching what I was offended by. I've had a complaint refused before on the grounds I believe porn should be allowed on the tv, so why should rival channels be allowed to complain.
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