• Bassman27@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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.

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      27 days ago

      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

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      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.

      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        27 days ago

        …if the people weren’t intentionally under-educated and manipulated en masse for generations to prefer illogical, irrational, and self-destructive patterns by their respective “government”.

        FTFY.

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      26 days ago

      To be fair, the headline is overblown since they are banning step-incest porn where one of the individuals is pretending to be underage.

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        26 days ago

        Which begs the question of “what do they mean by pretending to be underage?” I seriously doubt any of the actors are going to claim to be underage in the video as that would get their videos removed from any mainstream platform. Another user suggested that this is based on body type meaning petite actresses are going to be the ones targeted as being “illegal” just for existing as they are despite being of age.

        • Caveman@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          Yeah, it looks very vague and possible targeting videos that don’t exist, have no effect and still give Starmer a political win?

          Starmer could use it but his reverse hand of midas is going to turn it to shit no matter who.

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          21 days ago

          if a 90 year old lady puts on a twintail wig and wears a skirt she’s going STRAIGHT to jail for 5 years, god bless the queen king

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    27 days ago

    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?

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      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.

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        27 days ago

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

        • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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          27 days ago

          the most annoying part is that Israel took all the antisemitic conspiracy theories and made them real for Zionists, then ensure all the world blames the jews. They are the leading source of modern antisemitism. like even the most deranged antisemitic concepts like blood libel was made true by organ stealing (Knesset admitted it in 2006)

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            27 days ago

            Yeah, im ethnically jewish as well as romani and indigenous to turtle island. Im all too familiar with the games this empire plays and the damage it causes. I pass as white, so i also hear some of the most fucked up racist things from people who think im one of them.

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            26 days ago

            all the world blames the jews.

            Don’t think so little of your fellow man.
            Stupid people who already have antisemitic tendencies might go full mask off, but most can make the distinction.
            I violently hate zionists but never will I hate jews.
            I don’t even consider zionists jews, they have lost that right.
            These guys were in a square a street from where I live, how can you not love them?

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    26 days 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.

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      25 days ago

      The thing is they really don’t have grounds to ban “step” porn, but this will make their supporters think “he is going after them gross porn people” while downloading a VPN. It might have a chilling effect on porn producers, for a few minutes, but unless your porn had an actor explicitly state “I’m under 18” you are probably ok. I know this is UK based but the whole point of the law " act cool for my voters" is pretty universal.

    • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      If you read further you see this, though:

      “Step-incest pornography and that which depicts performers as children is abhorrent”

      So it’s not just if they pretend to be under 18. I think. I don’t know. I don’t think they know either. I think they’re trying to score cheap political points.

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    26 days ago

    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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      26 days ago

      Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

      Be even worse in a few years when the paltry votes they scrounged up with this move are long forgotten and the law continues to punish and hurt people for literally no justifiable reason.

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        26 days ago

        I guarantee we are but months away from a senior labour politician resigning because they are found to have incest porn on one of their devices.

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      26 days ago

      Well how could it not be? Genetically it’s just two random people, what would be the basis of making it illegal if at some point your parents hit off?

      • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca
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        26 days ago

        The basis to make it illegal is antiquated views of old white men how other people should live their lives according to how they see fit. Nothing more

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      26 days ago

      Ah thus is about the porn nobody is actually a step sibling.

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    25 days ago

    I may be stateside but i’m still amazed that a party that’s supposed to be truly left-leaning is putting out alt-right policies in the U.K.

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          am i? they implement draconian mass surveilance measures, reinforce racism, and tolerate a shocking degree of transphobia. when i look at the things the labour party has done in my life, i see a littany right-wing populist actions that undermine left-wing populist movements. if we use the definition of fascism that fascism is right-wing populism undercutting left-wing populism, i find it hard to see Labour as something other than the slick clean wide smiling acceptable version of Britain’s Ur-Fascism spearheaded by the Conservative and Union Party

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            Yes, you are. If you go purely on definitions and comparisons to actual fascism, you’re wide off the mark. But sure, “vibes” is where we are these days with reasoning.

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    26 days 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?

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    That’s about par for the course.

    So far, the current UK government seems to realise they’ve lost their voters; thus they’re trying to appeal to the opposition’s voters.

    The trouble is, no-one really wants censorship laws save for small (but vocal) pockets religious nuts masquerading as feminists.

    We’ve normalised “if you are against x, you are a vile monster” kind of thinking; and thus we are now facing sweeping censorship.