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Opinion: It shall not pass: The case against F17, the motion on protecting children from online pornography

By James Shaddock and Alisdair McGregor | Sat 14th September 2013 - 8:36 pm

Many of you will have seen or heard about motion F17 – Protecting Children From Online Pornography. If you are here in Glasgow at Autumn Conference, you will have also heard about the campaign to stop this motion, either through a reference back or voting it down. This motion must not be allowed to pass, either as is or amended, and here we want to lay out five reasons why:

1. Impossible to Implement

The recommendations put forward in both in the motion and amendment, are simply unworkable. The Internet does not work in the same way as other broadcast media,. As …

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Posted in Conference and Op-eds | Tagged autumn conference 2013 and pornography | 14 Comments

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