(24-10-2014 17:06 )mr mystery Wrote:  So my guess is, the girl on both occasions was Hannah Martin .

TickleTheOrc Wrote:I looked through that day and didn't see any of the things Ofcom mentions. I figured giving their specific wording, that the violations would be blatant, but I'm certainly not seeing what ever they are seeing.

Quote:Ofcom is the UK regulator for the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobile, postal services and the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

With a strong performance culture and collegiate working environment, Ofcom is at the heart of one of the UK’s most
dynamic and fast-moving sectors.

The Ofcom Board is now seeking to appoint a new Chief Executive to lead the organisation.

The challenge is considerable: to ensure that the communications sector delivers the best for citizens and consumers through
competition, innovation, investment and quality of service, building on the benefits that Ofcom has already secured.

The Board is looking for someone with considerable skill and experience but also someone motivated by wanting
to make a positive difference.

In particular, the candidate needs:
• Strong intellect: Analytical, intellectually robust and commercially astute; able to develop and articulate clear strategic options, evaluate potential outcomes, and plan effective implementation, with real attention to delivery.

• Effective leadership: First class management experience, comfortable operating at Board level, with exceptional
communication skills and proven capability to provide inspirational leadership at all levels.

• Political acumen: Deep understanding of the public policy environment in which Ofcom and the companies it regulates
operate in. Effective engagement with public institutions and stakeholders such as the UK Government, Parliaments, National Assemblies, European bodies, regulated businesses and other regulators.

The successful candidate will also need to demonstrate an authoritative understanding of issues in the sectors that
Ofcom regulates, ideally with exposure to the development and implementation of policy and strategy in these areas.

Please apply for an application pack to: ofcom@zygos.com or call 020 7881 2900.

Closing date: Monday 27 October 2014 at 5pm.

Ofcom is an equal opportunity employer. It wishes to reflect the diversity of contemporary UK society and is therefore actively seeking to recruit colleagues from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, as well as those who have a disability.

Quote:The chief executive of media regulator Ofcom has said technology companies such as Google and Facebook have “social responsibilities” and it is “absolutely right to ask what society should expect of those organisations”.

Ed Richards said it was important to ask questions about “what goes over these networks and to what extent we as a society are comfortable with the world that is creating”.

His comments came after the new director of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, called on US tech companies to do more in the fight against terrorism in the Financial Times, declaring that privacy had never been an “absolute right”.

Ofcom’s chair, Patricia Hodgson, said: “It’s certainly the case that there has been a struggle to keep up with this shift [in] the use of social media, the most extreme abuses of it, for terrorism or illegal pornography.”

Richards, the former adviser to Tony Blair who will step down from Ofcom at the end of this year, said: “I think it’s fair to say that there are social responsibilities that come with a media that are as prevalent and significant as those social media [companies] have become.

“It’s absolutely right to ask what society should expect of those organisations as responsible companies with an impact on society.”

The chair and chief executive of Ofcom were giving evidence to the Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday as part of a review of the regulator’s work.

Richards declined to comment specifically on Hennigan’s remarks but said: “At one level what he is saying is clearly right in the sense that social media are being used by all sorts of different communities, clearly including terrorist and jihadi [groups], and are part of the way that groups like that communicate.”

The pair were responding to a question from committee member and Labour MP Jim Sheridan about the unregulated nature of companies such as Google and Facebook who largely fall outside of Ofcom’s remit.

Sheridan said the companies’ representatives, when they had appeared before the committee, “don’t take their social responsibilities all that seriously”.

Richards said there were “at least three issues – one is the security issue which the new director of GCHQ touched upon, there are content and citizen protection issues, things like pornography and bullying, and then there is a wholly different set of economic issues as well which we do tend to get involved in, things like net neutrality.

“The area where it is most difficult and people are exploring, and for sure we are involved in discussions from time to time, is that area of what goes over these networks and to what extent we are as a society comfortable with the world that [it] is creating, in particular in relation to children.”

Hodgson said: “There are obviously arrangements whereby the government can categorise material [relating to terrorism or illegal pornography] and issue take-down notices.”

But she said there were “very great difficulties where that material is on the cusp, that doesn’t fall very clearly under those arrangements”.

(09-11-2014 20:19 )gunnar Wrote:  Just came across this link and thought it would be useful in the discussion relating to the future of the channels. Wasn't exactly sure where to put it, but this thread seems one of the more active ones so I put it here.

http://sexandcensorship.org/2014/11/uk-web-sites-forced-verify-age-new-laws/

Sex & Censorship Wrote:New laws and legislation have been drawn up to compel British-based web sites to verify the age of their visitors before presenting age-restricted content after dubious statistics have emerged stating one in twenty visitors to adult web sites were ‘children.’
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take issue with the statistics and believe them to be deliberately misleading, ATVOD’s language is all about access to children, in their annual reports they claim we prevented xxx number of children accessing adult content based. The simple fact is they do not know, they treat every debit card transaction that either fails verification or is processed without verifying the customer’s age as a child.
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Interestingly with this move the government will inadvertently be pushing young porn consumers to the tubes, the torrents and be ultimately responsible for stimulating a renewed piracy market for the adult industry.