3. I am one of those who have been fighting these ridiculous proposals since the start. It is clear that our Government does not trust us to behave like reasonable and sensible adults, they think that if we see this material we're going to do nasty things, so the Nanny State is going to say "we think this is bad for you, so we're not going to let you see it".

Not only that, it will be someone else's *subjective* view on how an image *appears* that will determine whether you are committing an offence, you may not even know if you've broken the law until someone else says "that image is grossly offensive and I think it risks someone's life or might cause them serious injury".

There is still the possibility of getting this ludicrous law thrown out, everyone needs to write to their MPs NOW via http://www.writetothem.com and tell them that they don't was want to see a Thought Crime introduced into British Law.

For more details and counter arguments see the Backlash site at http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk

2. sounds inherently stupid to me and cant see it getting passed by the house of Lords!

i remember being taught 'innocent until proven guilty' and not assuming all are guilty until proven otherwise. has this been lost from our justice system???

1. Who makes up this shadowy Internet Watch Foundation then? Most male adults I know most likely have such questionable images somewhere in the depths of their hard drives...