Porn flood
The Daily Mail (no link yet, but transcribed at Mediawatch-UK) reports on a survey by Screen Digest which reveals that the UK has the highest number of TV channels (416). This includes 29 adult channels – which is the fact which the Daily Mail wishes to highlight of course, even though those channels are much more tightly regulated here than in other parts of Europe – UPDATED to add: and they are subscription only (thanks Dan).
John Beyer is wheeled out for a comment, as usual. He complains about pornographers being allowed to “flood” our screens:
Some things they put on are in breach of generally accepted standards. But the failure of the Obscene Publications Act means pornographers know they can get away with pushing the boundaries and showing harder and harder material.
Sounds like you’ve got a bit of a porn habit there, Johnny-boy. If it makes you feel dirty, give it up.
What the Daily Mail fails to point out is these porn channels are subscription only so if adults do not wish to view them they do not have to subscribe to them.
But of course the Mail and Mediawatch-UK would deny adults the choice to subsribe to these channels in order to impose their prudish morals on us all.
There is some irony in their winging given the UK obsenity laws mean the channels are nigh usless anyway, and have just pushed people on to the internet to find material that isn’t so rediculously watered down.
Whose standards are these “generally accepted Standards” Massah Beyer refers to ? Most adults believe not only that such material should be allowed, but that more explicit material should be allowed, if it is by subscription only.
I wonder how Massah Beyer has become such an Expert on what they show on these encrypted only channels anyway ?
Anyway, on the new Sky Software, he can wave his magic remote control, and make ’em all dissappear from the EPG. That should be all right Massah shouldn’t it ?
Oh, you don’t want ’em showing up on MY Sky receiver’s EPG either Massah ?
Give him an inch…..
One other point:
“Our Screens…”
This really gets to me. Just as “our society” does. As if they had some kind of exclusive owner ship of the screens, and the society.
But I didn’t know that Massah Beyer owned any of MY television sets, and projection equipment ?
Would he like to pay my television licence, if he things otherwise ?
My Screens are MY private property. Nothing to do with him, and Massah Beyer cannot include them in his definition of “our”…
He might be able to speak for his MediaWatch members. But he does not speak for me, nor I suspect the majority of the British public, who are also NOT Mediawatch members.
Hmm so
TV ‘subscription only’ regulated albeit Porn.
Or
Internet ‘available to anyone with a connection’ unregulated hardcore Porn.
Yes I can see your brickwall like point as one can often see through a wall.
To the point of being allowed to flood us personally the advertisements that flood me every 15 mins of a program I find more offensive because I cannot unsubscribe from those.
Also to the point, the porn industry sadly is so big that it actually pays for more than you realise.
Just be happy you dont have porn ads in the middle of Corrie !