Following on from my last post, the Home Office released guidance on the new extreme pornography offences last month. That guidance can be read
here. It highlights just how absurd the legislation is. Paragraph 5 which examines how pornographic material will be defined is a particularly good example. This legislation is appallingly conceived, badly drafted and a disgrace in the twenty first century.
The legislation is a joke.
ReplyDeleteI can understand the reasoning behind it, as some hardcore pornography may be seen, by those not used to watching it, as too graphic. However I do not believe that watching images solely accounts for peoples behaviour!
If so, then under the definition in section 5, the magistrates and Jury are surely at risk of mass murder and beating of old ladies on street corners after watching the video in court?