psiphon and martus are human rights organising spaces.


:-)

At the same time as a promotion of a book called "fashion fuck" by Ben Westwood.

"We're aiming at giving people access to sites like Wikipedia”
— Michael Hull, Psiphon's lead engineer

Westwood's book under existing UK legislation could have been sent through the book distribution industry with the pages with extreme images glued together and effectively destroyed thus bypassing the sections of the Act before it comes into force - if indeed the author or publisher believe the images break the law.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Immigration_Act_2008#Obscene_publications Long before we work ourselves up to a renewed and probably fixed national debate on the BDSM "Spanner" consent case which failed in Lords appeal  http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1992/7.html and subsequent failed European court of appeal of (Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v. United Kingdom) http://worldlii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/1997/4.html and thus the definition of when "grown up" sex is unlawful and has been so & thus what depictions of same may be considered obscenity, considering we are in a "post-Mosley Formula 1 /MI5 sting" climate of prurient depiction of BDMS, we should think where that game would end - predictably as ever, the line between free speech and perceived blasphemy, hate speech and satirical cartoons.

The blog on the Independent newspaper site which this article expects us to read serves two purposes - promotion of Ben Westwood & the blurring of existing attacks on Jacqui Smith and Jack Straw. If it isn't just a frothy paragraph to fill up space & place a product [coffee table porn] , - It stinks of spin and the ever dangerous placement of prejudice.

It's sadder that this article on indymedia then confuses the work and value of Psiphon implying somehow that it bypasses UK data-retention or EU directives or was intended or used to facilitate the sharing of images of consentual private activity (does the title "grown up" mean only adults?). Michael Hull, Psiphon's lead engineer, the man who wants wikipedia to be read in dark places - has also spoken of the states Psiphon want their software to be used, China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and "safe to surf" Thailand. as in Thailand spellt without the n, o, n, c, or - e.

The name of the Act ought preclude the interest groups who should concentrate an attack on it & shape public perception of attacks. The name is simply "criminal and immigration bill" - not a mention of simulated snuff photography of shibaru courtesy of a millionaire fashion designer's son. You get to his concerns just before new laws on sex-offenders. But the important word "immigration" does appear in the title. Opening debate in the wrong place will only serve to copperfasten the legislation to the detriment of all "interest groups".

which is the more important interest group?

* Those who wish stop their kids tying up their pals in choke holds and suspending them from light fittings while they're at the supermarket because they flicked through a coffee table book at Waterstones?

* or addressing the need for poor human beings to find shelter from destroyed economies and neo-fascist intolerance in near European states and ensuring their continued parity of esteem before police and courts and exclusion from detention centres?

hmmmmm. make it very simple & shockingly lurid - which is more important?

* a photo of a pretend sex slave at play in the dungeon looking half convincingly half-dead?
or
* a real sex slave freed from her pimp who doesn't automatically get deported back out east?

is it not ok to react to something without being forced to choose ?? Because that is
precisely how the puritanical spin goes.

We knock little hammer blows into the carapace and they start the erosion of what are
essentially liberties-

I put two extra comments elsewhere, which should be clear:

1. Coercion and violence is not ok. But grown-ups make their own choices, like my friend
who won't be bound (she likes to be 'in charge')

2. To compare the art of Araki (that is the image chosen) to snuff or coerced porn,
or to experimentation (and am sure many of the middle-england parents have had their
day in the sun with the knots) is precisely the thinking of the rags that propagandise on
behalf of the government do.

We should be past that, the images are part of a language .

Maybe one should affix a 'don't try this at home label' to the coffee table book- who knows?

The law to stop an image which seems to depict someone 'at the point of death' cancels
auto-eroticism eh?? or who will discern the difference.Theres an awful lot of auto-eroticism
and private language in our art- where does one stop..,