Okay, MMI. Given that all this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, can anyone tell me why ANYTHING to do with sexual stimulation or gratification should be prosecuted as a felony? From what I'm reading, you can spend more time in prison for this than you could for selling heroin to grade school kids! Do the powers that be really think that arresting people for enjoying erotic images, even if they are "edgy", will do anything to stem the tide of real crime?
My recommendation to the good people of the UK is to have petitions passed to force lawmakers to open their own computers to oversight, just to make certain that they aren't violating their own laws. Then do your damndest to vote the idiots who are supporting this kind of trash out of office.
Of course, if politics over there is anything like it is over here, that isn't likely to happen. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some dizzy congressperson try to institute a similar law here, based on the "enormous success" of the UK law.
What a crock. I think it's time to find a lonely cabin in the mountains and start building a moat.