Britain's top obscenity lawyer says the government crackdown on online pornography could be the beginning of a major attack on the public's privacy on the web.
The Digital Economy Bill, a wide-ranging legislation targeting the UK’s electronic communications infrastructure, progressed to its final reading and amendments earlier this month. One of its main features is an attempt to restrict access to online pornography and it initially proposed banning any pornographic content which violates the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) guidelines – including female ejaculation and menstrual blood.
The bill has now been passed through the House of Lords and will be presented to the Commons once more before Royal Assent. However, the Lords actually produced some amendments: namely that online porn does not have to ascribe to the BBFC restrictions but instead must not include “extreme pornographic content” enshrined in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008.
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