Today marks the beginning of a new phase in a sustained campaign of internet censorship which has wide-reaching consequences beyond the mere production and consumption of pornography.
Let me tell you a legal joke. A man walks into a Court. He's charged with an offence under Section 63 of The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 of being in possession of an "extreme pornographic" video of a woman having sex with a tiger.
"WHSmith's vile trade in online rape porn," proclaimed the Mail on Sunday in an expose of the retailer's website, which appears to have accidentally allowed adult content ebooks to have come up in searches for children's material.
"Dear Mr Johnson, You've been rather a naughty boy, haven't you?"
State regulators are seldom challenged in such explicit terms.
In a speech to the NSPCC on the 22nd July 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron stated that pornography that depicts simulated rape "normalise(s) sexual violence against women," despite the absence of any evidence proving such a causal link.
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