1. This list is currently on-going... 2. The UK is the most fascist and repressive first world country on the planet... ---------------------------------- 1. A) Drawings of children naked or involved in sexual situations are illegal, which criminalizes a lot of anime, artwork, dakimakura doujinshi, hentai, VNs, etc. I, myself, *love* lolicon. I have lolicon art, manga and doujinshi (albeit digital copies), and I also masturbate to it. (I do have a few dakimakura, too.) However, I'm all for protecting __real__ children from being [sexually] abused, as that is completely abhorrant. But banning drawings because "you don't like them," is totally unacceptable. (The "I don't like/understand it, so it should be illegal." approach.) With __real__ child [sex] abuse you have a victim, but where is the victim in regards to drawings? There isn't any, and all you're doing is telling people what they may, and may not draw or think. (Which is what we call thoughtcrime.) Take first person shooters like Call of Duty; in those games you kill people, right? Why aren't they illegal? After all, murder is a crime. "They're obscene!" Obscenity varies from person to person. What you find obscene might not be what your neighbor finds obscene, or your friends find obscene, or the guy in the next town over finds obscene. I find actors and footballers paychecks obscene, but I don't see them being carted off to prison. (Though a good majority of them drink drive, physically assult or rape people.) "They normalize child abuse/sex with children!" You mean like how Grand Theft Auto normalizes beating people up and stealing their cars for fun? "I don't see what's stopping you from abusing children!" Do you rape every woman that you meet? I don't see what's stopping you from doing that... I can ejaculate to loli and still find real depictions of children being abused abhorrant, in the same way you can kill people in video games and still find murder abhorrant. Worse still, they want to make textual depictions illegal.[1] "For some, the written word is more powerful than the pictures. For some, the written word promotes a graphic image in their mind." (Again, thoughtcrime.) And why does the UK still have cherub statues if it's so against fictional children being naked? And have you ever been to some of the stately homes owned by the National Trust? Loads of paintings on the walls or ceilings which have naked children in them. Talk about hypocritical... Also, it is not a crime to be a pedophile. Otherwise it would be a crime to be a misanthrope or a sociopath. (I will admit I am somewhat misanthropic.) And Lolicons != Pedophiles != Ephebophile != Child molesters. The British really need to stop synonimizing them; they're very different things. It would be like saying a unicycle and an ocean oil supertanker are one and the same... That said, it is the moral obligation of every human being to disobey arbitrary and unjust laws. I'd like it if they spent money going after people who sexually abuse children than people who masturbate to drawings of anime children. But evidently that's too fucking difficult for them. B) It's also now illegal to possess rape materials, either real or simulated with an automatic three year jail sentence without trial. (Making it illegal to masturbate to the rape scene in The Sopranos or the film Boys Don't Cry, for example.) All because it "depraves and corrupts" according to end result of a failed abortion, David Cameron. I'm fairly sure money deprave and corrupts (look at the idiotic retards running this country, they're an excellent example), shouldn't we make that illegal, too? I mean, if I asked someone to smack someone upside the head, they probably wouldn't do it. But what if I offer to pay them £10 to do it? They'd most likely would. References: ----------- [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19574487 2. Double Jeopardy was abolished due to the police/government wanting to make terrorism charges stick. For those who do not know what double jeopardy is, it means you cannot be tried for the same crime with the same evidence twice. Those leading the investigation would need to find new evidence in order to have you re-tried. 3. You do not have the right to remain silent if you are being investigated for either fraud or terrorism. Same for encrypted files. (See section 7 below.) References: ----------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_remain_silent#England_and_Wales 4. Female ejaculation is illegal as it's classified as "urination" (even though it isn't), and urination in a sexual context is illegal under UK obscenity law. (lol, antiquated concepts.) I'd wonder if drawings of female ejaculation are illegal, but I honestly wouldn't be fucking surprised. References: ----------- http://carnalnation.com/content/35307/1001/fluid-sexuality-female-ejaculation-and-censorship-uk 5. Torrent websites are blocked by a high court order, even though torrent websites aren't illegal. Esp. when you have actual bands who upload their stuff to ThePirateBay. A specific instance of this was when ThePirateBay was blocked, it also blocked ThePromoBay, a website where Indie Artists promote themselves. (Though this block was later redacted.) 6. GCHQ is currently monitoring all the activies of its citizens all the pretense of protecting us from child molesters and terrorists. (If you believe that, you're an idiot.) Funnier still, they [the government] still wanted more powers to monitor what everybody was doing online while this was going on.[1] And what's worse, delusional, end result of a failed abortion David Cameron believes that the British public do not mind this![2] References: ----------- [1]: http://chrisspivey.org/britain-unveils-snoopers-charter-2/ [2]: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/press/releases/2014/jan/31/surveillance-cameron-cant-tell-fact-fiction/ 7. Personal encryption is more or less illegal. Well, it's actually failing to hand over your encryption keys is what that lands you five years in prison without trial. It doesn't change anything if you don't actually know the password (E.g. someone sent you the file) or you legitimately forgot it, either. (Amnesia, Dementia, etc.) And how do you determine if a file is a random file or encrypted? References: ----------- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081016/0145212560.shtml (UK Ruling Says Authorities Can Force You To Hand Over Your Encryption Key) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/14/ripa_self_incrimination_ruling/ (RIPA ruling closes encryption key loophole) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/ (Youth jailed for not handing over encryption password) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/ (UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/16/password_refusal_earns_terror_suspect_extra_jail_time/ (Clink! Terrorist jailed for refusing to tell police his encryption password! Sudden 'oh wait, I remember now' doesn't save him from extra stripey suntan time) 8. The net censor, a topic of much-heated debate. A lot of people claim this isn't censorship (Are you fucking retarded!?), and that the entire purpose is to protect children from sexual content and other things like drugs and suicide. (Bubblewrap nation.) Why should I, a 26-year-old male have to opt into pornography et al because a bunch of inbred, prudish parents are too fucking and lazy and inept at watching their children online? I also fail to understand why a child of six-years-old needs their own iPad. "Even though the computer is in the same room as us, we might want to watch while they're talking to their friends online." Tough. Your child, your responsibility. Do your fucking job as a parent. Say if you left a bottle of Bleach out, and your child drank it. Who was responsible for making sure that shouldn't have happened? Yours? Or are you going to abdicated that responsibility and demand the government do it for you? And what about sex? Are we going to make that illegal? Say your child walks in on your while you're fucking your wife; I don't see how that's any different from "accidentally" seeing pornography online. (We live in a time when people can reproduce via IVF, making sex pretty arbitrary. So, just for clarification, I did think this out. :D) Also, what do you define "sexual content?" Are the following URLs going to be blocked to protect children from seeing them? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_Nude_Maja_%28La_Maja_Desnuda%29_-_WGA10044.jpg 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis (I'm fairly sure a small boy would see the latter if he looked down in the shower, anyway.) And we all know this will be used to censor things that the government doesn't like, such as free speech and political opposition. (And as of 2014, this seems to be the case.[2][3]) References: -------- [1]: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-porn-filter-will-censor-other-content-too-isps-reveal-130726/ http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/26/1257233/chinese-firm-huawei-in-control-of-uk-net-filters [2]: http://rt.com/news/britain-porn-filter-block-education-531/ http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/porn-filter-blocks-website-of-mp-who-campaigned-for-it-50013120/ [3]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140211/19014226192/uk-govt-goes-extraterritorial-to-clean-up-web-ministers-looking-to-block-extremist-videos-foreign-websites.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/22/puritanical_purience_punting_puts_game_patch_in_sinbin/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/20/bt_lets_subscribers_turn_off_gay_education_sites/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/17/bt_parental_controls_will_block_proxies_and_anonymiser_sites/ 9. The police kick down your door and arrest you if you say anything remotely offensive or disagreeable on Twitter or Facebook. Either that or the government will have what you said removed and/or your accounts shut down.[1] References: ----------- [1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140211/08265426175/uk-government-dpartment-demands-twitter-parody-account-be-closed-down-mocking-politicians-heads-large-companies.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/11/twitter-joke-trial-appeal-verdict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Paul_Chambers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/17/charges_brought_against_two_brits_over_allegedly_sending_menacing_tweets_to_caroline_criado_perez/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/06/hampstead_school_head_sets_police_on_pupil_after_attack_blog/ ^ This was classified as legal, but the main gripe here is that criticism now has people whining to the police. ("Help, police! Someone called me an idiot online!" *sniff*) 10. Self-defense, or defending your own property is more or less illegal. Pepper spray is illegal[1], for example. References: ----------- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray#Europe http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=28476 (Myleene Klass warned after brandishing knife to deter intruders) 11. British Airways have this policy where they have to treat all male passengers as convicted child molesters and move them away from children they're sitting next too. References: ----------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_sex_discrimination_policy_controversy 12. Women can't rape men. (Due to some bullshit about rape being classified as "penetration.") So if a woman drugs a guy with roofies, straddles him and has sex against his will, it will not be classified as rape. (Perhaps assault, but not rape.) 13. You require police permission to protest... References: ----------- http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-was-arrested-for-trying-to-cover-saturdays-edl-rally 14. The police will storm your house if you insult our glorious leader, Kim Jong-cameron. References: ----------- http://www.blogs.findlaw.co.uk/solicitor/2010/05/police-storm-home-to-remove-david-cameron-wanker-poster.html 15. Here's some censorship from yesteryear... http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Selphie_Tilmitt#Weapons "Selphie's weapon were called "Nunchaku" in the NTSC versions of Final Fantasy VIII, but in the PAL versions and some walkthroughs they are known as "Shinobou" due to nunchaku's status as an illegal weapon at the time. " Rebranding a weapon as a different name just because it's illegal to own is retarded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%281987_TV_series%29#International_broadcasting ... { In the UK, TMNT was released under the name Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (TMHT). This was due to Margaret Thatcher, the controversy surrounding ninjas and related weapons such as nunchaku at the time. The intro sequence was heavily edited because of this, replacing the word ninja with hero or fighting, using a digitally faded logo instead of the animated blob, and removing any scenes in which Michelangelo wields his nunchaku, replacing them with random clips from the show. } Once again, trying to pretend that nunchuku don't exist, along with ninjas. (Retarded~) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies_ate_my_Neighbors "...some of its more violent content being censored in various territories such as Europe and Australia, where it is known only as Zombies." "Censorship committees in ... United Kingdom ... censored more by having the game renamed to Zombies and ordered other changes including the replacement of the chainsaw-wielding enemies with lumberjacks wielding axes." 16. We are the most monitored nation on the planet, with more than four million (and increasing) CCTV cameras. I'm guessing it won't be long before we have to have CCTV in our own house. (Hell, you could even jail people who refuse or destroy the camera!) References: ----------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm 17. We arrest people for stealing expired food from skips. (The Tory administration would hate for the poor to survive now, wouldn't they?) Thankfully this case was dropped when the CPS' popularity (lol, like they even had that) dropped. References: ----------- http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland 18. Assuming you're a large organization like the greedy bastards known as the BPI/MPAA/RIAA, etc. you can buy the police to rattle the saber for your own ends. Or, as Biff Tannen said in Back to the Future Part II, "Kid, I *OWN* the police!"[1] References: ----------- [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7kp-SofVs http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/29/metropolitan-police-virgin-media-lord-chief-justice 19. Don't want the media revealing your dirty governmental secrets? Have them destroyed by arm-twisting and threats! References: ----------- http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq 20. Don't want people to have legal aid? Make them stateless! (Stateless people do not have the right to legal aid.) References: ----------- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/29/theresa-may-terror-suspects-citizenship-clegg-approval (And we all know it won't be limited to just that.) 21. GCHQ has an operations program for dirty tricks such as DDoSing IRC servers, deleting online accounts, honeypots, etc. References: ----------- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140204/22511226092/snowden-docs-show-gchq-tried-to-ddos-anonymous.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140205/09440926098/those-convicted-ddos-attacks-uk-wondering-why-gchq-was-allowed-to-ddos-them.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140207/08354426130/gchq-has-entire-program-dirty-tricks-including-honeypots-using-journalists-deleting-online-accounts.shtml http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/11/11/gchq_used_fake_linkedin_profiles_to_access_belgian_telco/ 22. Illegal things aren't illegal if the government does it. (Do as I say, not as I do.) References: ----------- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140219/04165826275/uk-court-rules-miranda-detention-heathrow-airport-was-lawful-questions-remain-about-what-was-seized.shtml 23. The police will have access to the entire countries medical records. References: ----------- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140207/09552726132/uk-police-companies-will-have-access-to-database-all-englands-medical-records.shtml 24. The police will retain your genetic information forever; regardless of if you're innocent or not. References: ----------- http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/sep/03uk-dna-database.htm 25. I'm having a hard time finding this one. Internet grep for: "UK" "Gagging Bill" 26. We don't sequestor our jurors here like they do in the U.S. because "we expect the media to behave themselves." You know, in the same way you expect your house to be perfectly safe if you build it at the top of an active volcano. *facedesk* And just to show how well behaved the media are... http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-britain-hacking-blair-idUSBREA1I0Y820140219?feedType=RSS (Former British prime minister Tony Blair offered to act as a secret adviser to Rupert Murdoch during his media empire's phone-hacking scandal) 27. The City of London police issue takedown notices for websites outside of their jurisdiction and without due process. References: ----------- https://torrentfreak.com/seized-torrent-domains-must-be-released-says-domain-registrar-131011/ https://torrentfreak.com/registrars-clash-at-verisign-over-seized-pirate-site-domains-131103/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/plods_plonk_takedown_notice_on_easydns/ 28. Back before the Iraq war, when people were trying to protest against it, the police illegally stopped people from doing so. Also, it's illegal to protest outside the Houses of Parliament.[1] References: ----------- http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/10/288216/activists-rights-breached-by-uk-cops/ [1]: http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/parliamentprotest/2005/08/parliament_square_protest_exclusion_zone_protest_5_arrests.html