They’re coming for camming.
I understand from an official source that the @BBFC are anticipated to be designated as the official auditor to monitor live adult webcam streams in real-time to detect the commission of priority offences.
Censorship requires surveillance for enforcement.
This has incalculable implications for freedom of expression, privacy, surveillance, sex-workers’s rights, platforms, and consumers.
Criminal penalties:
Individual members of senior management of platforms can face 2 years imprisonment for failure to comply.
Sex workers can face 5 years imprisonment for some of the ill-defined “extreme pornography” offences.
Consumers could face 5 years imprisonment for encouraging those offences.
On Friday in the UK, face sitting porn will now become illegal due to strangulation and suffocation.
Watching actual, real, dangerous suffocation (UFC for example) is totally legal and has no restrictions whatsoever
Realise it isn't about porn.
today's numbers, no filter: 242,243 stolen copies found, 241,550 already handled by @BranditScan. i checked the report, closed the tab, went back to editing
Webcamming changes lives…
And now the UK wants to criminalize it!!
Being a webcam performer has given me the flexibility to work around the schedule of life. It stopped me from having to go to set and work with others. It brought my costs down, taught me so much about technology, all from the safety of my own home!
What happens when we remove a viable form of legal sex work?
Like it or not, but it forces many into completely unsafe situations, it can easily push Models into full service sex work and very unsafe situations. Real trafficking.
The safest form of sex work in my opinion is WebCam. It is the most accessible, the most Performer driven without outside input or force, and makes it so stay at home mom’s can work while their kids are at school, disabled cam workers can work without having to leave their home, and you can set your own style and schedule.
Webcamming gives you full bodily autonomy.
What’s happening in the UK right now is a war against sex workers. First they start by telling us what we can do on camera, now they’re trying to take the simplest and safest form of legal sex work away from us. This is a complete attack on bodily autonomy.
Uk cam models must organize and fight back!!