Forum - View topicINTEREST: British Government Plans to Regulate Streaming Platforms
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Escaflowne2001
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Very worrying because I could easily see shows like Redo of Healer or Interspecies Reviewers being blocked in the UK via legal streaming. While I know a lot of people will hate on shows like that, it would be a shame for me.
It could also lead to other shows being censored as well I'd imagine. |
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Blanchimont
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Unfortunately, UK is among those sorry countries, for example Canada and Australia, that like to equate fiction to real life, in that there may be legal consequences for those enjoying, providing or creating a certain kind of work of fiction, like in the case of lolicon imagery, and certain depictions(suicide, abuse, sexuality, sex dolls, etc). Be that as may, but it is unfortunate in any case. At least for some it may be countered by things like VPNs or piracy, but not everyone might have access to those tools... |
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510
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What would we do if we didn't have the government to protect us from vile japanese animation content such as edgy death games and loli kino?
I'm so thankful for this! |
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DarkEXE
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This is like China.
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consignia
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As everyone commenting has read the white paper in question, I don’t need to iterate that it specifically says it won’t be targeting smaller audiences:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/up-next-the-governments-vision-for-the-broadcasting-sector/up-next-the-governments-vision-for-the-broadcasting-sector#chapter-5-new-and-emerging-technologies It’s targeting your mass market steamers such as Netflix and Disney+, rather than boutique anime streamers such as Crunchyroll or Hidive. The former being unlikely to stream reputationally difficult content such as Redo of Healer anyway. Whilst this is typically ill thought out policy from the government, shoe-horning old bodies to do things they weren’t concevied to approach, this hardly the beginning of a purging of animated grot. |
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Escaflowne2001
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While it might only be targeting large streamers like Netflix and Disney+ at the moment. I'm in no doubt whatsoever, it will spread to all streaming services eventually.
They have to roll these kinds of things out in stages, overwise they'd get overwealmed with content. Last edited by Escaflowne2001 on Sun May 01, 2022 7:35 am; edited 1 time in total |
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510
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/up-next-the-governments-vision-for-the-broadcasting-sector/up-next-the-governments-vision-for-the-broadcasting-sector#chapter-5-new-and-emerging-technologies[/quote] Free speech is free until the government decides it no longer is, which is in most cases arbitrary and a try to get popular sentiment on their side, from whatever people becry it. If people were to go out demonstrate against vile animation, you can be sure free speech wouldn't matter, at all, and they'd move to ban it just to no longer have people go to the street. |
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WatcherZer
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For those who think this will spread from Video on Demand to other content providers I am afraid you are being paranoid conservatives,
Video sharing and social media (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook) already have the same content protections in the UK as the commercial broadcasters. The gap in regulation is in video as a service which lack social media functions (i.e. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+). Fictional depiction of minors engaging in sexual activity has been illegal since 1978, in 1994 that was extended to pseudo-photographs (lifelike drawings, CGI) and in 2009 to outline drawings. So Lolicon viewing is already illegal in the UK. |
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Blanchimont
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It may be the law, but it doesn't make that part of the law any less irrational. |
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Escaflowne2001
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I'm not worried about it spreading to social media. I'm worried about it spreading to smaller services like CR and HiDive. That's when things will get more tricky. |
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MarshalBanana
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In regards to Lolicon there have been titles that either skew on that side or have parts that do, that have been allowed to release in the UK on home media. Like Punch Line, Higurashi(The collection i have even put a picture of two of the younger characters in fetish maid costumes on the rigid slipcase to my dismay) and Monogatari, Lets also not forget games like Senran Kagura.
I know that's BFI, not Ofcom, still in terms of rules, i can't see it being all that differently. And no Anime, well maybe in hentai, have those types of characters engaging in sexual activity. So I can't see them blocking any Anime from streaming. You are more likely gong to get a ban for something strange like Horse tripping(War and Peace was not released in the UK on Blu-ray due to that). |
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johnnysasaki
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we're talking about a country that,for years,has censored and even banned movies and stuff just for showing nunchakus.Other weapons?fine.Nunchakus?BIG NO!So,yeah,they don't have much of a common sense alright... |
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Puniyo
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I guess Ofcom just doesn't have that much to do anymore, with so fewer people watching broadcast TV, huh.
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