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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

#Metoo - Since 2014 Backlash has assisted over 100 victims of serious sexual assaults and harassment to report these crimes to police in the UK and abroad. Most victims are women or sexual minorities.

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#internationalwomensday #womensday

BACKLASH IS 20!
AVMS Directive 2014 - Backlash contribute to the Porn Protest against the age verification clauses outside Parliament. 2014.
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#avms2014 #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom

BACKLASH IS 20!
Digital Economy Bill - Backlash instrumental in lobbying Parliament against Age Verification clauses in the Digital Economy Bill. 2016.
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#ageverification #digitaleconomybill #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom

There's a universe of immediately accessible online porn - you can't process one film at a time. Her perspective still seems trapped in the past as porn being something you 'buy' as a physical thing like a VHS tape, not fuelled by algorithms and profit. [end 🧵 ]

Schools don't even have the resources to prevent a flood of burned out teachers leaving. There's no way that setting up school programmes is going to stick or last. Boys and girls will return home to exhausted parents who don't have their kids' IT knowledge and who also reinforce the patriarchy.

No mention of the pervasive influence of 'manosphere', online influencers, the process that leads from conception of the 'idea' of a film to the automatic, immediately accessible free click based porn that schoolboys have endless access to.

Indoctrination into the objectification of women's bodies starts at home, among peers, and of course, on popularsocial media platforms.

No mention in Baroness Bertin's Recommendations of Patriarchy and Capitalism as driving forces behind porn consumption and the commodification of sex. 🧵

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#obscenepublicationsact1959 #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom

But the real danger is perfectly legal porn, that needs exclusive new laws and regulations.

Analysis | 277 million more harmful posts could flood Facebook and Instagram, study says Meta’s shift to relying on users to report many kinds of harmful content could mean a lot more of it gets left online, says the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

🗣️ Meta has failed to explain how it will keep its users safe online.

CCDH's analysis shows Meta's policy changes could flood Facebook, Instagram, and Threads with 277 million more harmful posts each year - including hate speech and violent content.

Our research in the @washingtonpost.com ⤵️

Hello @msnaughty.bsky.social, I just saw your dm from last year on X and found you here. We can dm if you would be so kind as to give a follow. Thanks for your support.

BACKLASH IS 20! Lords’ Committee - Backlash representative gave evidence before Lords’ Committee on the Digital Economy Bill in defence of adult sexual freedoms. 2017.

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#sexual freedom #obscenitylaw #sexualityandthelaw #sexualitylaw #britishlaw #britishcensorship

TikTok profiting from sexual livestreams involving children, BBC told Young women in Kenya tell the BBC they have used TikTok to sell sexual content since they were teenagers.

From the #bbcnews #bbcworldservice - as we have claimed, neither the #onlinesafetybill nor Baroness Bertin's Regulations in her #independentporn review, can protect British users from content produced and distributed from outside the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Bertin's 23 Recommendations only applies to UK. The absolute majority of adult content consumed in UK comes from all over the world. Regulating British porn producers, distributors and performers is just a minicule drop in the digital ocean. #independentpornreview #onlinesafetybill

BACKLASH IS 20!
Lobbied against age verification regime introduced by #onlinesafetyact.

Now campaigning for adult sexual privacy & freedom of expression rights in the face of State censorship - Online Safety Act 2023.
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#obscenepublicationsact1959 #onlinesafetybill #ageverification

BACKLASH IS 20!

Obscene Publications Act
In 2019, we lobbyed the Crown Prosecution Service to redefine the definition of obscene publication to exclude consensual sexual activities which are legal to perform.

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#obscenepublicationsact1959 #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom

Backlash campaigned against the age verification and adult content regulations in the Online Safety Bill. 2022-2023.

Online Safety Act 2023 - Backlash lobbied against the age verification regime introduced under the Online Safety Act 2023. 2023-2025. #onlinesafetyact2023 #onlinesafetyact

BACKLASH IS 20! We were formed in 2005 to challenge the misconceived extreme pornography clauses in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.

We have had numerous legal victories for adult sexual freedoms since then.

Now we’re campaigning against the Online Safety Act 2023 🧵

Please follow Backlash and if you can, donate to help us defend individuals and organisations, against puritanical and draconian British obscenity laws. Link in bio.

The original, grainy video, showed in fact a man in a tiger costume.
""The soundtrack confirmed that the person watching the image would realise that it was not actually areal tiger that was involved in the act" (the prosecutor noted) [From the North West Live, 2010]

"the soundtrack confirmed that the person watching the image would realise that it was not actually a real tiger that was involved in the act (Prosecutor Elizabeth Bell said)" [From the North West Live, 2010]

"When they did hear the sound, they discovered that following the act, the "tiger" turned to the camera and roared: "That beats the Frosties advert!" [From the North West Live, 2010]

"It emerged in court that police and prosecutors had not previously listened to the film with the soundtrack on" [From the North West Live, 2010]

"Andrew Robert Holland, 47, of High Street, Coedpoeth near Wrexham, appeared at Mold Court yesterday and pleaded not guilty" [From the North West Live, 2010]

"A man has been cleared of possessing an extreme pornographic mage involving a tiger having sex with a woman." [From the North West Live, 2010]

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Happy #stdavidsday. A perfect day to remember the infamous 2010 Tiger Porn Trial, held at Mold Crown Court and involving a man from North Wales. Quotes courtesy of #northwaleslive @northwaleslive's online records, with thanks 🧵