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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to authorise a full and independent re-examination of the findings of the Home Office Department Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship (Williams Committee) published in 1979 with a view to revising or scrapping the current legislation concerning censorship, much of which was originally based upon false or unprovable premis. More details
Submitted by Laurence Pay of Sexual Freedom Coalition – Deadline to sign up by: 29 March 2007 – Signatures: 379
Petition update, 30 March 2007
You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "authorise a full and independent re-examination of the findings of the Home Office Department Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship (Williams Committee) published in 1979 with a view to revising or scrapping the current legislation concerning censorship, much of which was originally based upon false or unprovable premis."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11401.asp
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More details from petition creator
Censorship is prohibition by another name. History has proven that prohibition is ineffective, all it does is drive up the price and place the distribution of the prohibited commodity in the hands of organised crime. The imposition of censorship for adults upon the written word or images (still or moving) produced with the full informed consent of the participants is both an affront to the notion of a free society and an insult to the intelligence of the electorate. Censorship was originally brought in by the ‘upper class’ because they feared that if the ‘common man and woman’ was exposed to such material they would sink into such national depravity that the workforce would cease to be viable and the country would descend into sexual anarchy. The advent of the Internet over the past 20 years has meant that all of those images have been available, the social experiment has been conducted and no such sexual disaster has ensued. Censorship laws are redundant–repeal them.
Current signatories
Laurence Pay, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- bob rayner
- t w brewer
- Ray Huxley
- b cantle
- Timothy Dabbs
- Richard Francis
- Jessica Lewis
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