Beyer’s porn petition flops
10 Downing Street has responded to “Massah” John Beyer’s petition to criminalise R18 pornography. Basically, the answer is “no”.
In his announcement of the petition, Beyer stated:
Almost 600 people have already signed, but it is vital that it attracts hundreds of thousands of signatures so that the Prime Minister is not left in any doubt about the strength of public feeling against offensive and harmful pornography.
The petition closed with 4,081 signatures.
So it would appear that there aren’t hundreds of thousands of people quite so keen as Beyer to tell adults what they can and cannot look at. And the government responded accordingly.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am
In the words of Edna Krabappel… “HAA!”
March 28th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I wonder how many of those 4,081 were real people… Not that such a crushing defeat will stop beyer.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Yes! A victory for Freedom and for atheism.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I love the use of the words “Beyer”, “Porn” and “flops” in one headline. Genius.
For those of you have seen J Christie’s campaign to send every MP a copy of “The God Delusion”, why don’t we do something similiar with Beyer? Let’s all send him our dodgy old porn videos and second hand Mayfairs? He’d have enough “material” to keep him going for ever.
And don’t look at me like that. I know what you have under your bed.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
And don’t look at me like that. I know what you have under your bed.
A secret external hard drive full of saucy DivX movies?
March 28th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I’ve just sent Mr. Beyer 89.com (do not look at if easily offended or in front of children.) That should either shit the fuck out of him or give a good wank.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:16 am
I thought an external hard drive was a dildo.
March 30th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I suppose if you could get a big enough USB powered one, you could stick a 2.5″ drive in it.