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Originally Posted by DVTimes
I agree that the UK does not have free speech, but you gave a poor example. You could have given the examples of the fact that offending someone is a crime, or the pug dog joke got a chap to have a criminal record.
j=But your link does not stop fetish porn in the UK, just extreme such as dead people or animals (I suspect this is an offence in the USA to be honest).
However the USA does have censorship indirectly in porn. By this visa has rules about what it will and will not allow. It will not let you use certain words in porn.
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Well the world has the same restrictions when it comes to porn since most of it goes through credit card processing based in the US.
Extreme porn in the UK goes beyond just animals or dead people. And yes, those are both considered obscene in the US but here is how the UK defines extreme porn...
An extreme pornographic image is an image which meets four criteria. It is:
Pornographic ("of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal"), and
Grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character, and
Portrays in an explicit and realistic way any of the following:
An act which threatens a person's life, or
An act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals, or
An act which involves sexual interference with a human corpse (necrophilia), or
A person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive) (bestiality), or
An act which involves the non-consensual penetration of a person's vagina, anus or mouth by another with the other person's penis or part of the other person’s body or anything else (rape or assault by penetration)
and
A reasonable person looking at the image would think that the persons or animals were real.
I havent done the research as to if there has been any prosecutions for extreme porn in the UK, but the highlighted red text above would probably not be considered obscene in the US.