What’s it like to ban a film? When I used to deal with asylum cases, the courts said we had to exercise most anxious scrutiny. It’s a bit like that, however inexact the parallel. Freedom of expression is a strong human right, and it always needs a powerful balancing case to justify cuts or bans. The main instrument we use these days is the age classification system rather than censorship. And we’ve repeatedly found at the BBFC that the public overwhelmingly believes that, at the adult level, people should be free to choose whether or not to see a film, with only limited exceptions.
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