r/SipsTea • u/StarforgeVoyager • 8h ago
Wait a damn minute! UK is banning Game of Thrones?
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u/Yersini 7h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah but, you guys know the people in the video aren't actually step siblings right?
What are they banning, dialogue?
What a strange line in the sand to draw.
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u/Lightbringer-1829 7h ago
Now they'll do actual siblings who dont act siblings
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u/Yersini 7h ago
I can't wait for the ADR to drop.
In the UK it's gonna be the most uncanny "oh yeah Coworker"
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u/BeneficialPenalty258 6h ago
Help me step coworker.
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u/Yersini 6h ago
"we gotta be quick step CoWorker our Boss is going to be home soon, and they're gonna be pissed if they find us Not Doing the TPS reports"
I could get into it.
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u/BeneficialPenalty258 6h ago
The older we get, the more niche it becomes. ‘Not doing TPS reports’, pure filth.
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u/sociofobs 4h ago
That's been a thing for a long time if you know where to look and what to look for, hehe. Real incest isn't advertised as such, unlike all the fake role-play shit with horrendous acting everywhere. Weird, how so many people are into that, yet cringe at the real stuff.
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u/TheWhistleThistle 3h ago
Yes. They're banning the dialogue. And presumably titles and credits that likewise allude to the fiction. Of course, compliant websites and producers will simply strike any explicit usage of the words, nothing at all will have been achieved, unless they make it so that videos that, by the vibes-based determination of some panel, have characters that are sufficiently relative-coded. "You're under arrest because in this pornographic video you and a bunch of unrelated, consenting adults produced, the two stars' characters seem (by the interpretation of... someone) to be related. But they're not, you say? Well, that's not up to you, and because it's vibes based, it's not something that can be objectively determined, so it's up to our panel".
So the question is whether this is another step in the direction of moral purity laws under which pornography is entirely illegal, or ineffectual busywork the government is doing just to be seen to be doing something, like when you walk around with a clipboard or box at work to avoid being given a task.
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u/Karnezar 5h ago
I'm not for this ban, but if you were to make a movie of a grown man sleeping with a child, even if that "child" was a grown actress who just looked young, that movie would still be banned.
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u/BeneficialPenalty258 7h ago
But how is step brother going to get stepsister free from the washing machine?
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u/Worldliness_Normal 6h ago
Or what about when Dad will "be home any minute" but step-mom needs some "company"???? These are real questions.
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u/Steamrolled777 7h ago
Is that the doorbell ringing? who ordered pizza?
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u/why_1337 5h ago
That's not incest, is it?
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u/De_Dominator69 5h ago
This law is classing it as such. Which is why it's so dumb and massively overreaching, considering actual real relations between step-siblings would be perfectly legal.
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u/Jormungand1342 5h ago
So if step-siblings have sex and record it for sale. The relationship is legal but the porn isnt. Big oof. Hope they aren't voyeurs
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u/BeneficialPenalty258 4h ago
You are right. The law is for actual portrayal of incest. Though it also covers step siblings where one is portraying someone under 18.
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u/AlternativePea6203 2h ago
It's already illegal if anyone is under or portrayed to be under 18, so that's not true.
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u/lluciferusllamas 6h ago
Oh look, VPN sales just went up
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u/No-Impact1573 4h ago
They will be banning VPN, that's the end game.
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u/mansbakedbrev 4h ago
China tried and failed
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u/recommendsnothing 2h ago
It's not about succeeding.
It's about bashing down the door and taking all the electronic devices of someone who has an 'illegal vpn' whenever it's convenient for the state.
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u/IrefusetoturnVPNoff 1h ago
Honestly with the way hardware is going I think the play will be to just heavily restrict the hardware itself. Make everything cloud computing where all you can actually own is something like a stripped down chromebook then you pay a subscription for your computing power from the almighty cloud, which gives them 100% control over everything you'd do.
They wouldn't even need to deliberately implement any hardware restrictions, the market's heading that way anyway with RAM, GPU, and storage costs skyrocketing with no signs of them coming down at all for a couple of years at least.
A dedicated bedroom coder will come up with a workaround to pretty much any software level restrictions, but nobody can just build RAM or a hard drive at home.
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u/Maetivet 16m ago
VPNs are used for a lot more than people wanting a crafty wank; you couldn't ban VPNs, it'd be akin to banning cars to stop speeding.
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u/Maetivet 17m ago
It'll be an offence to posses it, i.e. watch it; so whilst a VPN might help hide the activity, it'd still essentially be illegal.
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u/J3remyD 6h ago edited 6h ago
Is it technically incest when the characters are not actually biologically related?
Not saying I approve of incest portrayals, but it’s pretty unlikely IMO that the actors are ever related in the first place.
Now choking?
WAY too easy to permanently harm someone if you don’t know EXACTLY what you’re doing, so I am strongly of the opinion it should not be encouraged or normalized unless both parties use safety precautions and research.
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u/vi_sucks 2h ago
They're not even banning depictions of people pretending to be biologically related. That stuff bascially doesn't exist any more.
They're banning "step-bro" and "step-mom" stuff.
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u/AnubissDarkling 6h ago
VPN's exist and became extra popular when the UK demanded it's citizens prove their age to consume adult material not so long ago, so I'm sure this affects one or two old schoolers who have no idea what a VPN is, but to the average porn consumer this will do absolutely fuck all but burn time and money which could be spent on more important things
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u/No_Director_2570 6h ago
But my father is away on a business trip, who is going to fuck my STEPmom?
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u/Old_Relationship3460 6h ago
It's already impossible to watch porn in the UK. You need a VPN to change your location.
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u/sociofobs 4h ago
Actual incest porn hasn't been a thing on mainstream pornsites since the golden days of the internet, it's on niche websites that don't give a flying fuck about legalities unless it's CP. What are they banning now, fake incest titles? "Oh no step bro, we're being outlawed" lmao.
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u/IWear2BlackSocks 5h ago
Darth vader doesn't like this whatsoever. National ban on star wars incoming...
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u/Far_Balance_3117 2h ago
Look on the bright side.
The alarmingly large rate of people getting stuck in washing machines is going to come down.
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u/halfasleep90 37m ago
So if someone is choking on some dill it gets banned? What are they doing over there?
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u/Odd_Lifeguard7720 3m ago
Hhhhmmmm all the things to focus on and one of the things they choose is this? 🤔
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u/RedEyesGoldDragon 5h ago
Incest, okay sure, makes absolute sense.
But choking? really dude? One of the like, go-to semi-kinky things people do during sex that's honestly pretty normal these days? Like I get if they mean harsh asphyxiation but I'm pretty sure that's not what most people do or is even very common.
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