See no evil. The government doesn't want you to view certain images. And will send you to prison if you possess them. Even in the privacy of your own home.
Shooting the Messenger
The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society's ills.
The UK government is to legislate how best to imprison potentially many people for viewing content on the internet.
How should governments regulate the details of our personal lives and control individual expression ?
Preserve Individual Freedoms
Backlash campaigns to ensure the right remedies are applied to the right problems.
Whilst doing so we preserve hard won individual rights and liberties.
Rebuttal by backlash 31 Aug
Government misleads public on internet porn
"The Home Office is deliberately misleading the public in its claims for the proposed ban on 'extreme porn on the internet' ". That is the view of Backlash, the umbrella group campaigning for a more rational approach to the law in this area.
"All we heard yesterday was how the proposed new law would plug gaps in the Obscene Publications Act (OPA) ", said Deborah Hyde, spokesman for Backlash.
"In fact, this is exactly what it won't do. It will create a string of new and different offences based around what the government considers to be unacceptable. If they really wished to plug gaps, they would have taken the advice of the Bar Council, and simply argued to extend the OPA.
They are also determined to spin this law as though it has something to do with children. That also is untrue.
The law governing images of children is already well fixed. We must be absolutely clear that these proposals are about regulating images that are primarily of consenting adults taken for consenting adults.
The government's true agenda is a desire to regulate what adults can see in the privacy of their own homes."
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Issued Thurs Aug 31 2006