Here's an e-mail I've just written to my MP encouraging him to keep supporting actions which will roll back the ridiculous Nanny State anti-pornography laws that keep coming out of Westminster.
If you want to copy it and modify it to send to your MP, please feel free.
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Dear Mike Hancock,
I am writing to you to compliment you on your courage in supporting Early day motion 605 asking for the ridiculous Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 to be annulled.
This is another ludicrous piece of Nanny State regulation suggesting that the people of this country are so weak-minded and morally bankrupt that they cannot be trusted to be allowed to see material such as this just in case it might make them do something bad, even though the activities depicted are completely legal to perform!
It follows on from the nonsensical Extreme Pornography legislation (sections 63 to 67 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008) about which we conversed some years ago that was based on the same Precautionary Principle idea that "Well, we don't know this stuff does any harm, but let's ban it anyway, just to be on the safe side".
It is high time that the ridiculously prudish and censorious attitude of this country's laws was completely revised, being based, it seems, on little more than personal distaste ("We don't like this, so *you* shouldn't be allowed to see it") and anecdotal, post hoc justifications of "Person X looked at Bad Material Y and then perpetrated Crime Z, therefore the crime must have been caused by what they saw.
Please continue to support motions such as this so that adults in this country can be treated *as* adults and be allowed to make up their own minds what they see, instead of being told that "Nanny Knows Best".
Yours Sincerely,
Graham Marsden.
