The OPA Rides Again

[green_amber]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/obscene_publication_girls_aloud/

Bleeding heck. This and the UK extraditing someone for denial of Holocaust, a crime we don't actually have here, all in one week?

Are conservative values reasserting themselves in recession or ius it just autumn and time for some Internet moral panic stories?

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Holocaust denial isn't a crime in the UK?

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Not if you do it without incitement to racial or religious hatred.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

The Girls Aloud story certainly seems obscene to me although it's a very long time since I last used the Clapham omnibus.

However, surely the publicity of a prosecution will cause more discomfort and distress to the members of Girls Aloud than the original material would have done if left to moulder on the internet?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Well yes. (Although I supoose you could argue no publicity is bad publicity..) I assume the DPP is Making A Point.