RE: Furry rules!
There are no rules.
None...at all.
The only thing the channels have to go off is the phrase 'acceptable standards of taste and decency'. WTF does that mean? Well, literally anything OfCom says it means.
They deliberately leave it a grey area so that they can smack the fine stick around whenever they feel like it.
If they were to produce a set of cast iron rules, they would find themselves in difficulty almost straight away. They would have to minutely examine and justify their own morality and that would just expose how rediculous and out of touch they are. They simply could not justify any rule through the law of this land as said law finds there to be nothing wrong with hardcore pornography, let alone the soft-core shite this nation has to suffer.
If they could, they would simply ban the lot of these channels and have done with it altogether. As they've tried to do and failed because the programmers were smart enough to set their lawyers, armed with the law, onto them. They can't even go to court, in fact dare not go to court as they know exactly what the result will be...hardcore on the tele.
Don't you find it somewhat strange that a government appointed body tries to sneak through unlawful legislation in an attempt to push through an agenda that the people of this country rejected a long time ago when Mary Whitehouse was forced to retire and her cronies, the viewers and listeners association was disbanded?
I do. In fact, I find it fucking alarming.
We all thought those interfering bastards had long since gone to their graves, but, instead of disapearing like the country expected them to do, they reformed, kissed the right ass (Jack motherfucking Straw) and got COMPLETE control over EVERYTHING you watch, in the form of OfCom.
We don't have fibre optic broadband country-wide because they haven't figured out yet how to fully censor the internet. Although they are making inroads in that area too. They've already beaten the BBC up with their morality bat [edit: for publishing post-watershed content on their iPlayer] as well as fining the babe channels for daring to host Hardcore pron on their interweb sites. (no shit) So, don't hold your breath and don't expect to keep on seeing hardcore pron on your computer forever. With the right people in power, they'll be all over the 'net too and you'll be back to getting your kicks from Benny Hill shows.
At least Clegg has been making the right noises just lately. His introduction on GMTV the other day involved the phrase 'we should be less of a nanny state' although, the peeps at GMTV failed to expand on that during the subsequent interview, concentrating instead on all the cuts that were about to be put through parliment.
So, come on Cleggy, speak up, tell us more about the de-nannyfying of Britain...
...please.
The military might be driving technology forward, but pornography is riding shotgun.
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(This post was last modified: 18-06-2010 22:29 by TheDarkKnight.)
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