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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to steadfastly proceed with plans announced in the Queen's Speech to make possession of extreme pornography illegal and to include a much wider range of pornographic imagery, such as R18 material, within the scope of the Criminal Justice Bill. More details
Submitted by John C Beyer of mediawatch-uk – Deadline to sign up by: 07 March 2007 – Signatures: 4,093
In 1972 the late Lord Denning, former Master of the Rolls, said that the law against pornography had misfired: He said: "Much that is obscene has escaped the reach of the law". The pornography industry has exploited to the full a law that is inherently flawed and has failed to fulfil the intention of Parliament in the 1959 Act to strengthen the criminal law. It has had the opposite effect.
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