Public Meeting: Keep Britain’s Internet Uncensored
Monday 23rd September at 7pm
Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Bloomsbury, London
Sex and Censorship in conjunction with XBIZ have organised a public meeting against internet censorship.
It is an open events with a discussion panel, models, producers, journalists all in attendance.
The confirmed speakers are:
- Diane Duke, CEO of the Free Speech Coalition (US)
- Karina Currie, UK Pornstar and Writer
- Edie Lamort, Stripper and Sexual Freedom Activist
- Myles Jackman, Obscenity Lawyer
- Ben Yates, Producer
- Plus additional video messages
Update: Video of the ATVOD Session During XBIZ EU conference
28th September 2013. See video from YouTube
Pete Johnson discusses ATVOD in depth and specific to the adult content producing and business and fields questions from the variety of content producers present from livecams, domination and mistressing sites, clips4sale, adultwork, websites, mobile platforms
Other things of interest were discussed including the decision to remove TVX representative from the board of ATVOD and more. It came across in the meeting that although Chris Radcliffe had contributed to the ATVOD agenda, it was clear that it was felt that he had failed to bring the rest of the adult industry on board.
Johnson came across as very dogmatic about child protection and was single minded about pushing through his ideas. There did not seem much in what he was saying that fulfilled any pretence of being a co-regulator, at least in part representing the VOD industry. Perhaps a surprising lack of ideas for technological solutions, such as widely available age verification services. He seemed more keen on banning porn than, find technical ways to block children’s access.
Update: Report from Keep Britain Uncensored rally
29th September 2013. See article from xbiz.com . Thanks to Ben Yates
See Video of the Keep Britain Uncensored rally from YouTube
Sex & Censorship is a new U.K. group, spearheaded by free speech advocate Jerry Barnett, that is attempting to find ways to keep the Internet uncensored in the country.
The meeting coincided with XBIZ EU and drew an impressive crowd at the Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Hotel in central London. The session was open to XBIZ EU attendees, as well as the general public.
The rally, spanning over one hour, features U.K. obscenity attorney Myles Jackman, stripper and activist Edie Lamort, porn star Karina Currie and adult producer and designer Ben Yates, as well as video messages from Barnett and Kink.com founder Peter Acworth, who provide numerous reasons and anecdotal evidence why the U.K. should dump Prime Minister David Cameron’s porn opt-in plan and lobby ATVOD for a more reasonable plan that wouldn’t punish adult distributors in the country, as well as operators of foreign porn sites, for delivery of content. The Free Speech Coalition’s Diane Duke hosted the meeting.
Barnett, who couldn’t attend the meeting, told attendees through a video message that the U.K. has the strongest censorship laws in the world and that the country has spiralled enforcement upward in the past 30 years.
We are facing a counter sexual revolution; we are facing puritanism, Lamort said in her plea to the adult biz to counteract the threat of Internet censorship hovering over the U.K.
See Video of the Keep Britain Uncensored rally
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