Update on UK "extreme porn" legislation

I reported on this back in July of last year and now it's back in the news again as it rolls forward.

As this new article in The Register points out, this legislation would make it illegal to have pictures of acts which themselves are perfectly legal under the government's justification that so called "extreme pornography" leads to violence. A very weak claim at best on their part.

Aside from the obvious comments on the trouble with the government becoming the "thought police", I found this quote from Lord McIntosh of Haringey rather poignant; "What does it matter to the Government whether what we have in our homes for our own purposes is for sexual arousal or not? What is wrong with sexual arousal anyway? That is not a matter for Parliament or government to be concerned about."

Stop the insanity!

The next time you see someone typing the words "after the fold" or "after the jump", please slap them upside the head and sternly ask "what the hell are you doing!?"

Help stop the trendy idiocy. We're on the web, not in a magazine or a newspaper.

There is no "fold", there is no "jump". And if you put in such obtrusive in-line ads that they make the reader completely unable to follow the story, then you're an idiot to begin with and stating "after the jump" isn't going to help your absolute design ineptitude.

Stop the insanity; smack the next person you see doing this, and if you find it on a website, make sure to leave a comment telling them how stupid it is.

Thank you.