UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/03/uk-pornography-taskforce-to-propose-banning-barely-legal-content-after-channel-4-documentary-airs
by StresWeeting
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So, thoughts on a name for the new morality police?
Im thinking “the ministry of silly wanks”
No babies, no marriage, no dating, no sex, no masturbation
No coincidence as we phase out finite natural resources
If it’s barely legal then it’s legal
You wouldn’t stop a 18 year role having a drink on their 18th birthday because they’re barely 18
There’s nudity on Channel 4???? Fuck me where’s Mary Whitehouse when you need her.
What’s barely legal?
It’s either legal or it isn’t.
Personally I find porn like that gross, but this seems quite puritanical.
It’s either legal or it’s not.
millions to be spent forcing porn providers to…change the name and keep the content. Great use of funds that.
I feel like I’ve fallen into an alternative timeline where Charles II was never put on the throne.
Honestly I don’t know what to even say about this type of stuff.
Labour has always been an authoritarian party, as have the conservatives, but after the most recent bill they’re obviously just trying to ban pornography.
As with the age verification bill, they’ll write it to be extremely ambiguous, so that private companies and individuals who provide or make pornography are forced to be over zealous at the risk of being criminally prosecuted based on the opinion of someone else.
What if you have a 40 year old woman in a school girl uniform? What if you have a young looking 21 year old in normal clothes? Unless they clearly define the parametres, which they won’t, both of these would be banned despite being otherwise totally consensual and legal.
Have governments learned nothing from telling people what they can and can’t think?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Keep signing the petition.
I guess they’re just gonna ban the words barely legal? lol
I mean, 18 is 18.
It won’t just say *barely legal girl takes huge cock*
It’ll just be
*girl takes cock on 18th birthday*
Or
*18 year old first time*
Etc etc
Have they never seen C4’s Dogging tales. That was far more explicit and not what I was expecting at all, watched it during lockdown in a shared house. 🤣
Reminded me of being a teenager watching euro trash on mute 🤣🤣🤣
It’s getting really silly now. Parents should be parenting their offspring/crotch goblins .
Im not goung to sit here and say anything nasty/misogynistic or even misandry about her.
I have my own opinion on it . I don’t need this so called government telling me my own opinions and thoughts and if they are acceptable or not.
It’s getting very black mirror.
Parent your children.
What the fuck is going on with all the pearl clutchers.
Gotta go in with banning fast food advert aimed at children. New computer game themed mc donald advert telling kids to go on a mission to unhealthy food.
Is it barely legal or is it just legal. Because if it’s legal it’s legal.
Why are policies being once again made off the back of TV shows?
The fundamental problem with how politicians respond to pornography is that they think the public believe pornography to be real or somehow aspirational.
This is incorrect. Most people understand that these are fantasy situations performed by entertainers, as realistic as the latest Marvel movie.
According to Google she’s 26 and doesn’t look remotely questionable in age. When exactly does she stop being ‘barely legal’?
God forbid they ban something actually harmful like gambling ads
Streisand effect in full force for this. I would never had even knew it existed if it wasn’t for all the complaints and threats of banning
Jesus Christ I didn’t realise we had the fun police in the uk.
We should also ban people for driving 25 on a 30 mph road.
Is it not counter productive to push for giving 16 year olds the vote and then introducing the Online Safety Act in almost same breath?
So they want to ban legal content?
What’s with the sudden drive to ban porn?
If you keep banning the age that is just above the legal age, then surely that’s just banning all porn?
Taskforce!?
Christ alive, imagine the damn Thunderbirds paragliding into your house and smacking you laptop out of you hand because the lady is 22 in a uniform and she looks like she could be 19 which is really close to 18 and 18 is really close to 16 and so morally we all should stand up and thank them for breaching our privacy.
I for one am fully onboard with the task force w, and wish them all the best in purging the immoral demons just trying to have something to look at while they play with themselves!
Rule Britannia!
As much of a minger she is, bringing in a type of morality police is not the answer.
Illegal = ban.
Next.
Porn = ban.
Next.
Barely legal = ban.
Next.
?? = ban.
Next.
If you speak against the overlords, you will be vanished and your family will be sent to a re-education camp.
barely legal is still legal. you’re entitled to think someone’s a bit weird for watching it but they are allowed to watch it, because it is legal. 18 year olds are not children and we do not want to start down the slippery slope of treating them as such.
We all know that Labour has an authoritarian side, funny how they’re doubling down on that and forgetting they’re supposed to be helping the common man afford the basics as well. Whatever happened to Mondeo Man.
We’re becoming more and more like Dubai but with higher tax rates and worse healthcare
So if you’re a grown adult but you look quite young, taking photos of yourself naked would be illegal?
Why does shit like this keep coming up. I dont think anyone really cares and there’s a lot more important/helpful stuff that could be happening. For example, if you don’t like that Bonnie Blue documentary, don’t watch it, I know I won’t.
No one likes this law. particularly when things like r/periods is being cut out. This feels like setting up the blocking of anything the current government doesn’t agree with.
I also doubt the next party in power will repeal it as it’s an incredibly powerful and effective weapon, why would they?
Not that Britain ever was a fully free-speech place but this is government overreach. The idea of the government dealing with grooming gang scandals and then enacting widespread laws around what people can access, is laughable at best and horrifying at worst.
This country is getting me down. Sometimes It gets me really, really low to the point of taking the easy way out.
Day by day, we are being micromanaged and have freedoms taken away, told how to live our lives
This woman gives me the creeps. I wonder if she’s a psychopath and just doesn’t experience strong emotions. I wish ever podcast, online news, youtube etc would stop promoting her though. Its given her exactly what she wants. And instead of being on the fringes she is mainstream.
The founder of this taskforce is Baroness Gabby Bertin.
Her [Register of Parliamentary Interests](https://members.parliament.uk/member/4577/registeredinterests) shows she has a Research Assistant working in her office, provided to her by *Christian Action, Research and Education*.
Considering this group’s website contains resources which call [“for an end to the porn industry”](https://care.org.uk/uploads/blocks/Pornography-3.pdf), the fact their associates are starting to be taken seriously should cause anyone who cares about civil liberties to have pause for thought.
For reference, this group also campaigned against the repeal of [Section 28](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28).
These aren’t your cuddly, Anglican “live and let live” types. They’re extremist Evangelicals who want to impose their absurd worldview on the rest of us using the force of law.
Shag a 16 year old: legal
Watch a 25 year old shag without scanning your face: not legal
Watch a flat-chested 25 year old shag without scanning your face: GULAG YOU FUCKING NONCE
Make it make sense. Someone. Anyone.
Yes let’s look to the British establishment on morality when it comes to protecting minors and stopping the exploitation of minors.
Not wasting any time are they? they set up the slope and are slipping down it gleefully.
If it’s not illegal – and as gross or objectionable as you may think it is – there’s no need to make it illegal.
Just fucking accept that people possess a sexuality and it might differ from your own. If all involved are consenting adults over the age of 18 it is nothing to do with any government.
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