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MPs told porn to blame for child rape epidemic sweeping britain.

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Reply 20
Original post by Piko_Piko
It's not porn that should be banned - it's the daily mail. Getting people all riled up and misinformed with a host of vague, yet inflammatory statements.
It's got to be stopped before it gets out of hand.


The DM or freedom of speech?
Reply 21
Original post by Piko_Piko
It's not porn that should be banned - it's the daily mail. Getting people all riled up and misinformed with a host of vague, yet inflammatory statements.
It's got to be stopped before it gets out of hand.


so we should ban the freedom of the press? :K:
Original post by Bonged.
The DM or freedom of speech?


Good point. Banning the daily mail would strike a blow against free speech.

My newest ill thought out idea is a health warning on the front page, warning about inaccuracies, increased risk of aneurysms and a general outraged feeling that comes with reading the paper.
Better?
Reply 23
Original post by Piko_Piko
Good point. Banning the daily mail would strike a blow against free speech.

My newest ill thought out idea is a health warning on the front page, warning about inaccuracies, increased risk of aneurysms and a general outraged feeling that comes with reading the paper.
Better?


As long as similar warnings come with the Guardian and Independent - "may turn you into a fascist that wants to ban the daily mail as you disagree with it and dislike those who read it".
Reply 24
oh please if porn causes rape then COD causes people to go on killing sprees.
4chan to blame.
It is up to parents and schools to give good information about healthy relationships, sex and how pornography can be enjoyed, but is not representative of 99% of relationships. Banning porn won't solve anything, and it won't help the children who are already doing the harming, or those who have already been harmed.
I like it how they blame everything on porn. The opt-in to watch porn system is ridiculous.

I would vote for the politician who has the gut to admit that s/he watch porn.
Reply 28
I stop believing anything that comes out of daily mail tbh
Anti-pornography campaigners need to focus on the exploitation, mainly of women, if it's happening (and I'm not saying that all pornography is coercive/exploitative).

The "save the children" angle has been pushed by pro-censorship people for years. Whether saying that adult porn companies make child porn or don't care if their actresses are underage (false), or saying that legalising hardcore porn will lead to men slippery-sloping to child abuse images, in some versions of the myth animal and necro "extreme" porn being the stepping stone (false), or now saying that it is normalising rape for children.
Sweeping generalizations and assumptions (admitted as much in the article) and sprinkled with scaremongering and topped off with a convenient target for blame. Serve on a plate of total lack of intellectual rational consideration and what you have is yet another Daily Mail style headline scare.
Original post by thinbeard
Serious child sex abuse is rife across Britain, with young attackers re-enacting scenes of extreme pornography they have seen on their mobile phones, MPs were told yesterday.

Sue Berelowitz, the Deputy Children's Commissioner, said.

"We should start from the assumption that children are being sexually exploited right the way across the country," she said. "It is very sadistic, it is very violent, it is very, very ugly."

In parts of London, Ms Berelowitz said, "children expect to have to perform oral sex on line-ups of boys, up to two hours at a time, from the age of 11".

It was "quite common" for girls to be lured via internet chat rooms to meet a friend, only to be met by a group of boys and gang raped in a park.

"Then another group of boys come, they take her to another part of the park and she is serially raped again," she said.

"I wish I could say to you that such things are uncommon but I'm afraid they are quite common."

The deputy commissioner told the MPs that "what is being done is so terrible that people need to lay aside their denial" or risk victims being disbelieved.

Victims numbered in the "thousands" rather than "hundreds".

Young people were often acting out scenes they had seen in online pornography, she added.

In one case, boys aged 14 and 15 were "summoned" via Blackberry Messenger to the gang rape of a "very, very young girl" which lasted several days.

"Boys were being called while some were raping the girl to say 'Come, come, come, you can join in too' and they were arriving and elbowing each other out of the way to rape her."

In another case, older men were using young male gang members as a "front line" in a wider abuse network, and had even forced two of the boys to have sex and filmed it on a mobile phone to ensure their compliance.

Ms Berelowitz said: "Parents may think they can control what's going on because they can have a blockage on the computer, but the reality is children can get anything they like on their mobile phones. And they are.

"It has definitely affected children's thresholds of what they think is normal."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18422204

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158455/Online-porn-turning-children-sex-attackers-Young-act-depraved-scenes-web-says-Deputy-Childrens-Commissioner.html


Don't forget too; video games are responsible for violence as well as Marilyn Manson who directly caused the Columbine Massacre.
Media up in uproar screaming 'ban this filth?'

Nothing new.

It happened with Mortal Kombat, Anime, South Park, Grand Theft Auto, grime, hip-hop, metal, Madonna, Manhunt, toy guns, etc etc etc

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Reply 33
By that form of extreme logic


MP's are claiming expenses unfairly and some are corrupt. Let's ban the MP's which should "solve" the problem
Binge drinkers are trashing parts of Britain. Ban all alcohol.

****ing morons. Do they not say the same thing about violent movies, games or other forms of media? Yes they do and not much happens after that.

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