My friend @Jess4Lowestoft is a hero and a champion for women and children’s safety every single day.
Disagree with her if you want, she can take it. But the horrific character attacks this week should give us all pause about what our politics has become
Proud of you Jess x
New laws to tackle harmful pornography are now in force.
What happens online can have real-life consequences. These changes aim to prevent the normalisation of sexual violence and abuse, as part of our wider work to tackle violence against women and girls.
every headline in the uk atm is like
- ethnonationalist party 2nd in polls
- mps vote to criminalise kissing
- 2 in 3 britons approve of gunning down immigrants at the border
- this actor is a rapist now apparently
- sports!
- protestors tortured in tower of london
It’s violating because it encompasses a persons consenting, adult, private relationships, conversations & kinks
My bf & I could make a private video together (daddy kink/choking), never share it, but if it’s ever found it might class as making & possession of illegal media
A total overreach and a step towards puritanical levels of censorship.
3 years in prison for watching pornography of consenting adults, but the British people who joined the IDF to commit acts of terrorism are freely allowed to return to UK without facing justice.
The fundamental difference between the British government’s response to Ukraine vs its response to Palestine is just so blatantly hypocritical and racist, I genuinely don’t understand how they dont spontaneously implode from the sheer force of the contradiction.
Important to note that vague “oh we’ll use common sense” legislation is always a dangerous basis in which to ground law. It allows for selective prosecution & persecution, often of minority groups like SWs who govs (if this this one, then a future one) may consider troublemakers.
We've gone from "supporting Palestine Action is criminal" to "opposing the proscription of Palestine Action is criminal" without any new laws being passed.
It should worry anyone when opposing government decisions has been made an arrestable offence.
Obviously lots of porn being made technically illegal doesn't necessarily mean the cops will be battering down your door at every little offence. But that just means they have broad discretion to selectively enforce it against people they dislike.
I was given this ‘chocolate dinosaur’ and I want to warn you there are people out there trying to pass off chocolate Permian reptiles as chocolate dinosaurs