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		<title>Hatfield police celebrate first conviction for extreme porn under new laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hazel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following an investigation by PC Ross Freeman and Hatfield neighbourhood Sergeant Malcolm Dey, along with the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), Glen Smith, 38, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to 22 charges of selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs and possession of extreme pornography on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Andrew Mcintosh loses his fight with cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hazel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baron Mcintosh died on Friday 27th 2010.
A committed humanist who opposed to interference in the private lives of adults as long as what they do did not cause harm to anyone else, he spoke up in the House of Lords debate on the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act.
&#8220;This part of Part 5 introduces new definitions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Extreme concern&#8217; &#8211; new academic critique of extreme porn law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith provide a measured critique of the ban on extreme pornography in a recent article for the Journal of Law and Society (currently available without library subscription). They analyse the rhetorical devices used to generate public anxiety about viewers of extreme material. They also show how the poor evidence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dentist pleads guilty to &#8216;pain porn&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man in Dorset has pled guilty to possessing several extreme images and videos of acts that, so far as we are aware, were exclusively conducted by consenting adults. It is far from clear that the images satisfied the real definition of extreme pornography (merely painful activites are not covered and images must be produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme porn charge dropped due to Backlash intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poorly founded extreme porn charge, tenaciously pursued for many months by the Crown Prosecution Service, was dropped last week. The man was able to contact Backlash who put him in contact with expert legal advice on how to deal with the charge. He was able to vacate his guilty plea, which he had previously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Extreme porn&#8217; found on phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sunderland man has admitted possession of a short video clip of male genital mutilation on his mobile phone. He was warned that he could have faced a jail sentence had he forwarded the image along to anyone else. The clip was sent to him by a friend. This is another case of an individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Parliament passes &#8220;extreme porn&#8221; law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Scottish Parliament passed its own version of the ban on &#8220;extreme porn&#8221; as part of the wide ranging Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill. &#8220;Extreme pornography&#8221; in Scotland includes a potentially much wider range of images, prohibiting possession of depictions of non-consensual sex besides the categories already present in English law. While rape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme porn charges against pensioner dropped</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Fae reports that a man facing charges of possessing extreme pornography has had the case against him dropped. The prosecution were unable to make the case that he intended to possess the images. Although Fae believes this spells greater ambiguity as to how the law can be prosecuted, I think there is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Stagliano faces jail in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/wp/?p=682</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surprisingly informative show on Fox (presented by the excellent John Stossel) interviews pornographer John Stagliano on charges of obscenity that he faces in court. Few places in the world have truly durable rights to sexual expression, including the US which has otherwise remarkable judicial protections on free speech.

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		<title>Doing the stats on unpopular law</title>
		<link>http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/wp/?p=672</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previous Government no doubt tabled the extreme pornography measures expecting wide popular approval.  There was a recent court case that seemed to demonstrate its risks, and a fifty-thousand vote petition condemning violence against women and the pornography which &#8216;promoted&#8217; it.  A clear vote-winner, surely.
But from the outset, the online community didn&#8217;t agree. [...]]]></description>
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