A legal issue
Roel, 10 Nov 2005 08:39:27
Any thoughts on this?
- Let's say this law is passed.
- Let's say I do a nice fotoshoot with my girlfriend gagged-and-bound
(so far that's quite legal around here).
- Let's say I keep my website address in my signature on a UK based forum.
Is this going to be considered "solliciting" a crime, like pushing drugs
or otherwise offering illegal stuff?
And on a non-UK based forum where I know British people read along?
Anyone?
Roel
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http://yahoo.touwtjes.tk/ - Bondage forum & community (Dutch)
«No Name Set», 11 Nov 2005 18:15:26
edible stuff here
just in case
guilty^ writes:
Any thoughts on this?
- Let's say this law is passed.
- Let's say I do a nice fotoshoot with my girlfriend gagged-and-bound
(so far that's quite legal around here).
- Let's say I keep my website address in my signature on a UK based forum.
Is this going to be considered "solliciting" a crime, like pushing drugs
or otherwise offering illegal stuff?
And on a non-UK based forum where I know British people read along?
Anyone?
Roel
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http://www.touwtjes.tk/ - bondage website (Dutch & English)
http://yahoo.touwtjes.tk/ - Bondage forum & community (Dutch)
Interesting question! - guess what, no-one in the government has
thought of this one yet!
THey can't prosecute you for distribution if your not in the UK
and what you're doing is legal where you are, and your website
is hosted there too.
They propose to make it an offence to possess the images - which
would mean you're OK doing what you do where you do, and we're
OK so long as we don't actually click on your link and pull up
any of your "extreme" pics. Or at least, do so in any way which
is "intentional" and leaves a file on our PCs, being "possessed".
How anyone would prove (or disprove) that they'd meant to look
at these, rather than clicking on what they thought was your
forum profile (to find out a bit more about this guy who'd
written this interesting post) is anyone's guess.
Our law enforcement bods don't generally try to prosecute Brits
abroad for going to Amsterdam coffeeshops and partaking of the
merchandise there [though I'm told they tend to stop-and-search
people getting off flights from Schipol more than most other
destinations.]
OTOH, they can know prosecute in the UK people who go to, for
example, Thailand, and have sex with young prostitutes who'd be
classed as minors here (and often are "sold into sex slavery",
allegedly).
What would happen if you tried to come to the UK for any reason
is another matter. And when you're here, you better hadn't try
to check your website for any new emails, etc.
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Rosemary