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[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 3 days ago

Including possession? What will they do, demand all users in the UK to unlock their devices for regular content scans?

[–] Bassman27@lemmy.world 302 points 1 week ago (11 children)

When banging your step mum is legal but watching a fictional video of someone else banging their step mum is illegal 🤪 welcome to the UK ladies and gentlemen.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's legal if you submit your ID to the government and have it recorded in the masterbaitorbase that you whacked off to that video. What, don't make it weird... /s

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Oi! Yew got a loicence fer that Stepmother? Roigt, oim gonna ave to clamp those jugs untill such toime as that courts decoide"

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be sure you don't call a genocide a genocide. Wouldn't be proper.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it's not really different to supporting a genocidal fascist dictatorship and declaring everyone who supports their victims "terrorists"...

The world is an idiocracy and the majority of humanity are mentally ill. The world would not be as fucking stupid and insane as it is if the average person was logical.

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 195 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Banning porn where the actors pretend that what they're doing is almost illegal is wild. What's next, prison time if they say that one of the participants is just over the age of consent?

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Nah, I want to know when they finally ban the really vile stuff. You know, all those murders on the screen in, oh I don't know, 70% of all fictional works?

That they seriously consider step porn as worse than murder shows that it is all about control and not about morals.

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[–] bel@fedinsfw.app 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

A key clause not included in the headline and only briefly mentioned in the article is that this doesn't ban all step-porn. It only bans the step-porn if one of the actors pretends to be under 18.

From gov.uk:

The first of these vital measures will ban anyone from possessing or publishing harmful pornography that shows incest between family members, and sex between step or foster relations where one person is pretending to be under 18.

A further amendment will criminalise the publication and possession of pornography where an adult is roleplaying as a child.  

(edited to update link)

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Isn't an adult pretending to be a child in porn already illegal? That seems like something that would always have been illegal.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 137 points 1 week ago (2 children)

tackling this vile content will make our country a safer place for women

Doubt.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

Generally, the effect of all the "for children" laws and parties etc is exactly the opposite.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 117 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don't really get this. If the characters in the production are adults and not blood related how is it different than roommate porn?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (6 children)

the UK loves to control adults. they banned face sitting porn. there was a law where you a had to ask your ISP to allow you to see adult content (with the default being off). but I'm not sure how/if it was enforced because I lived there when they made their law and had no issues.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they banned face sitting porn.

Well, it kinda makes sense. If you allow people to simply watch face sitting porn from the comfort of their homes, how are they supposed to sell the public the licenses required to face sit in real life?

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Oi mate do you got a cunnilicense for that?

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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are the royals still allowed actual sex acts with their blood relatives?

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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 101 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I never understood this whole step porn thing, but this is ridiculous lol

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah.

I don’t get it, it’s weird, but is it 5 years in jail weird? No.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 31 points 1 week ago (24 children)

It cheap to make. The "story" is simple but explains why these two people live in the same house without it being incest.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

It's also really efficient, setting up the entire relationship with just the word "step-bro". Plus, it's taboo enough for the characters to say "we shouldn't", but not SO taboo that the viewer thinks they actually shouldn't.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 75 points 1 week ago (16 children)

You guys in the UK better burn any copies of Game of Thrones you might have around. The show wasn't that good as to be worth the jail time.

On a side note, is the UK alright?

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No, the UK is not alright. They've been banning a lot of stuff lately. And I mean a lot. It's comparable to even the Deep South of the US, and that's hardly an exaggeration. The worst part is that most of it seems to truly be a bipartisan effort.

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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 63 points 1 week ago

A country with what remains of a monarchy banning any kind of incest porn is just… wow…

Irony has been institutionalized.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only porn allowed in 10 years will be of people getting fucked by the government

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Oi bruv where's yer wanking loicense?!

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 61 points 1 week ago

Just another moral panic to allow the Government to continue to lay the ground work to take away rights.

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 58 points 1 week ago

The role of the government is not to decide what is abhorrent and what isn't. The role of the government is to ensure protection of human rights, provide healthcare, run schools, build infrastructure and so on.

Consenting horny adults being horny with each other and doing horny stuff to each other does not violate any human rights.

The British government can go fuck itself.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Ministry of Justice said that possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime.

This reads like its only banned if someone also pretends to be under 18?

IDK but I thought porn depicting minors was generally banned in most countries?

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the sort of stupid shit you get when you vote for right wing whack-a-doos.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sad thing, that was supposed to be the left wing party. Corbyn was an open socialist.

but they had a huge antisemitic campaign that ousted him for his support of Palestine and turned the Labor into a clone of the Tories.

Somehow, Israel is always to blame.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Israel is the bleeding edge of colonialism in our modern era. So almost every fucked up situation circles back to them evetually

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can't. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

Also, and here's where it gets fun...

Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

As always, the first computers you should check when anyone tries to ban consensual porn that harms no one, are the computers of the ones proposing the ban.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The Ministry of Justice said that possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime.

So it's only a crime if they pretend to be under-18, and I haven't seen any porno where anyone pretends to be under-18. There's literally a category called barely 18. No one ever pretends to be under, but they do pretend to be barely-18.

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, said: ‘After many years of campaigning to ensure online pornographic content is subject to the same rules as offline content,

When the fuck was under-18 porn ever legal? WTF? Also, isn't the age of consent in the UK 16 years old?

What the fuck is the point of this? Why the fuck is it needed? Who is it helping? What is it fixing? NOTHING.

Fucking jokers... Go tax the billionaires and fix the NHS and the cost of the living crisis you cunts .

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thou doth protest too much 😏

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What are you doing back there, step-government?

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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

Oh no! How will I ever know what to do when my step-sibling is stuck in a washing machine?!


Seriously though, while it is definitely weird when an adult pretends to be a minor in porn, is it really 5 years in prison weird??

Like are we really going to put people in prison for pretending to do something illegal when we already have a problem with huge delays in court times and severely overcrowded prisons?

I'd much prefer the limited public resources go towards locking up actual pedos than people fetishising them.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Step-incest pornography and that which depicts performers as children is abhorrent.
Alongside banning strangulation in pornography which the government previously announced, tackling this vile content will make our country a safer place for women and children and shows the UK can lead the world in tackling violence against women and girls

That's it folks, step incest is violence against women and girls. Next up, in order to further protect them, they'll be prohibited from going outside without a man by their side.

Whoever asked "What's next, BDSM?" - guess what

The government has already made porn that shows women being choked illegal, after a review found videos like these had helped normalise it in real life.

The only silver lining in this whole thing is still only in "planning"

Ministers are also planning to make tech bosses personally liable if their platforms do not remove intimate pictures of people that are posted without consent.

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stay tuned for more porn advices from your government

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Help me Step Big Brother! I'm stuck with my government in my bedroom!

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

This is the hill they die on? This is the issue they threaten to revolt for? Not properly funding the NHS or something else that benefits people?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there are countless thousands being massacred around the world, there are people starving to death, there are soooo many problems, and this is what we're focusing on? JFC. Fuck you starmer

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