(23-06-2011 23:41 )swimmer1 Wrote: http://www.atvod.co.uk/uploads/files/ATV...r_2011.pdf
Far to complicated for me to understand but are these ofcom new rules ? and does it in any way change things on babe channels ?
These are ATVOD's rules and they don't change OFCOM's shite in any way, shape or form.
For instance, you CAN watch R18-type material from an online 'TV-like' on-demand service...if you can prove you're 18 first.
How OFCOM/ATVOD have ILLEGALLY placed R18-type material in the category which "may cause serious impairment to minors" is quite astonishing since, in 2000, the High Court declared such material to be "an insignificant risk to children that might see it" (BBFC v VAC, 2000). R18 is legally HARMLESS to minors and the High Court would not have ordered that it be placed on sale on the high street to take into your home to watch if it were likely to cause harm to under eighteens. So, who the fuck do OFCOM/ATVOD think they are to overrule the decisions of the High Court of England and Wales? Where EXACTLY does the Comms Act say that either OFCOM or ATVOD are ALLOWED to decide what "may seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors"? It doesn't, simple as that. OFCOM and ATVOD are acting way beyond their legal remits. Only a COURT can make such decisions...and those decisions are based on REAL EVIDENCE, not scaremongering, not religious morality, not 'traditional values'.
As ever OFCOM and ATVOD have IGNORED the very real danger religious brainwashing poses to susceptable children. They've ignored the fact that 18-rated movies often contain some bad people doing bad things...like taking drugs, beating folks up, committing robbery, murder, rape and so forth.
There's far worse stuff in 18-rated films that would shock and disturb the development of young children than the sight of a couple bonking in an R18 film ever could. After all, we're all born to have sex and perpetuate our species and, as a rule, Mother Nature doesn't make fuck-ups like creating creatures that can be damaged by their own sexual reason for living... Only relgious nutters and small-minded pricks dare to believe anything different.
But, as ever, the blinkered puritan religious halfwits we have, imposing their censorship and moral values on us without any legal right or power to do so, simply get away with it.