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Seems kind of disingenuous to give Poem grief for doing something that people do on this forum all the time.
I mean. It's annoying when anybody does it; I'm complaining about it here cause I'm in this thread (and I'm actually interested in the sources)
None of your goddamn business.
I don't know who that is, but a brief look at her Wikipedia page tells me that she is a Baroness and a conservative member of the House of Lords, which does not give me confidence. Going a little deeper links her with a "charity" that actually appears to have been a political action front for the Conservative Party and which was shut down for irregular practices. So yeah, I have little to no faith in her impartiality.
I don't think individual politicians are supposed to be impartial. I think Poem's actual concept here is that politicians are respectable and authoritative, and this one agrees with Poem's position, therefore you must concede that Poem's position is respectable.
This one's not even a politician. She's a life peer - a Baroness who received the accolade for her work in David Cameron's government and who only has a seat in the British Parliament due to that institution's roots in the mediaeval aristocracy. Members of the House of Lords are not elected. They are either appointed (as she was)
Faux outrage and you know it. Your 'evidence' amounts to nothing.
Only because you won't go and do the research yourself.
Explain why your lack of credible evidence has anything to do with me?
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is the not-for-profit independent regulator for film and video in the UK. Regarding Bertin's review, they said:
"The result is that a very large volume of violent, abusive material that would never be approved for offline distribution has become widely accessible to UK pornography users," - simply don't believe them it is their typical mendacious machinations to try and insert themselves and remain relevant. I am sure if you go hunting for non-mainstream porn you can find it. But then if you go hunting enough on the web you can find anything. There is a world of difference to accessing the mainstream porn sites and hunting for often very illegal material. They are trying to conflate the two. I am now certain that they also class any touching or holding of the neck by a performer as violent strangulation.
Why don't you believe them? Why are you sure they are conflating such content?
The issue is that as a conservative life peer, I don't recognise her authority or her impartiality.
My understanding is that it is normal practice to appoint peers for non-statutory policy reviews - and her recommendation to ban NFS in porn has been adopted by a Labour government no less.
I didn't say she shouldn't be trusted, I said I had little faith in her impartiality.
A conservative peer who took advice from academics, the police, the BBFC and medical bodies (and the open call for evidence included those within the porn industry). If a Labour government has adopted some of her recommendations then that gives some credit to her work.
Because I went and looked.