Censor Watch

A British Labour MP, Jessica Asato, has announced that she plans to ask Parliament to outlaw online adult content featuring the act of choking. Asato called choking content insidious and claimed that it has led to a huge increase in the practice in everyday relationships. Asato claimed in an interview with GB News that this is also leading to things like spitting, slapping -- all things that actually many women say they don't want, they don't consent to -- so technically, that's criminal.

Asato explained that, should she be successful in passing the proposed law, the British media censor Ofcom would be empowered to levy really big fines or initiate criminal proceedings against sites or platforms that make choking content available online.

Inevitably the moralist Asato doesn't consider her censorship proposal as censorship. Asked whether she opposes nonviolent consensual pornography, Asato responded:

I don't have any problem with that at all, and I'm certainly not here to be a moralist ...BUT... What I'm really concerned about is the damaging impact it has in the real lives of women and girls in relationships.

Earlier this year, a pornography review initiated under the conservative government of former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recommended banning any adult content deemed degrading, violent and misogynistic -- including material showing choking, eaggeratingly tagged as non-fatal strangulation.

A new set of censorship rules unilaterally issued by the Israel Defense Forces is raising alarms over media freedom and public transparency.

Brigadier-General Kobi Mandelblit, Israel's chief censor, has issued a mandate requiring prior approval for any reporting on where missiles or drones have struck, no matter the platform or location of publication.

According to the statement, any person who prints or publishes printed matter or a publication regarding the location of a strike or hit by enemy war materiel, including missiles of any kind and UAVs, in the media or online (including social media, blogs and chats, etc.) must now submit that material to the military censor for approval before it is released.

This directive applies to both domestic and international reporting, online and offline.

First Time Video is pay site specialising in first time in porn sets. there are two websites, ftvgirls.com and ftvmilfs.com.

First time video repsonded to the ofcom censorship by taking away an introductory page describing the website content. British users are now met with just a subscription option to join the website as a paying member.

See article from ofcom.org.uk

In June 2025 Ofcom announced an investigation of the website saying:

We have launched an investigation into whether First Time Videos LLC, which provides the pornographic services FTVGirls.com and FTVMilfs.com, has highly effective age assurance in place to protect children from pornography.

We will now gather and analyse evidence to determine whether any contraventions have occurred. If our assessment indicates compliance failures, we will issue provisional notices of contravention to providers, who can then make representations on our findings, before we make our final decisions.

We will provide updates on these investigations as soon as possible.

Carry On Teacher is a 1959 UK comedy by Gerald Thomas
Starring Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips and Kenneth Connor

BBFC cuts were required for 'U' rated cinema release in 1959. The BBFC cuts have persisted into all releases since.

Summary Notes

Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.

Versions

uncut run: 86:15s pal: 82:48s		UK: Cut and BBFC U rated for mild sex references and comic violence: 2006 Optimum Releasing/Studiocanal DVD (rated 11/08/2006) at UK Amazon #ad UK: Cut and BBFC U rated for: 2001 Warner Home DVD (rated 12/09/2001) 1988 Warner Home VHS (rated 11/07/1988)
cut:   run: 89:00s pal: 85:26s		UK: A longer version was BBFC U rated for mild sex references and comic violence for mild sex references and comic violence after BBFC cuts: 1959 Beaconsfield Films cinema release (rated 20/05/1959) Thanks to Vince. The BBFC cuts list read: Reel 2 & 3 - Shorten the dialogue between the master and the pupil who objects to the use of the school edition of 'Romeo and Juliet', especially removing the phrase "by her fine foot, straight leg and thigh and the demesnes that there adjacent lie." From IMDb: The name 'Allcock' was questioned by the 1950s' censors, especially how much the characters constantly say it with such precision on the cock part, but they eventually allowed it to pass.

See article from en.wikipedia.org

4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. The site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, technology, anime, physical fitness, politics, and sports, porn, among others. Registration is not available, except for staff, and users typically post anonymously. 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of whom approximately half are from the United States.

The website achieved a little notoriety in Donald Trump's first presidential term. The wesbite was identified for providing a voice to 'alt-right' (right leaning) Trump supporters who were otherwise silenced by an alliance of liberal internet companies and mainstream media outlets..

In June 2025 Ofcom announced that it was looking into censoring 4chn. Ofcom wrote:

Ofcom has launched investigations into whether seven file-sharing services, 4chan and porn provider First Time Videos have failed to comply with their duties under the UK's Online Safety Act. Duties under the Act

The Online Safety Act has introduced new rules to ensure online services take action to protect their UK users, especially children.

Sites that publish their own pornography must already have highly effective age checks in place to stop children accessing this material. Search and user-to-user services -- where people can see content shared by others, including social media -- should have assessed the risk of their UK users encountering illegal content and activity on their platforms, and must now be taking appropriate steps to protect them from it.

As well as engaging with large platforms about their new duties, our dedicated taskforce has been attempting to engage with a number of smaller sites that may present particular risks to users. Today we have opened investigations into a number of these services.

Specifically, we are investigating whether the providers of these services have failed to:

put appropriate safety measures in place to protect UK users from illegal content and activity; complete -- and keep a record of -- a suitable and sufficient illegal harms risk assessment; and respond to a statutory information request.

4chan hasn't made a statement about Ofcom's censorship. The website is still generally available in the UKbut is partially self censored. Attempting to reach the site via the home page results in a 403 error message (meaning that the user is unauthorised). However jumping into any other page (eg https://boards.4chan.org/news/) works without error.

 

Offsite Comment: Allowing British authorities to demand compliance from virtually any website.

See article from reclaimthenet.org

Ofcom has set its sights on 4chan, a US-hosted imageboard owned by a Japanese national. The site operates under US law and has no physical infrastructure, employees, or legal registration in Britain. Nonetheless, UK regulators have declared it fair game.

Wherever in the world a service is based if it has 'links to the UK', it now has duties to protect UK users, Ofcom insists.

That phrase, links to the UK, is intentionally vague and extraordinarily expensive, allowing British authorities to demand compliance from virtually any website.

This kind of extraterritorial overreach marks a direct threat to the principle of national sovereignty in internet governance. The UK is attempting to dictate the rules of online speech to foreign companies, hosted on foreign servers, and serving users in other countries, all because someone in Britain might visit their site.

According to Ofcom, 4chan failed to respond to its statutory information requests, making it one of nine services now under formal investigation.

What this law actually does is push platforms, especially smaller or independent ones, out of the UK entirely.

Rather than making the internet safer, the law is creating a digital iron curtain around the UK, where only government-approved content and services remain accessible.

A paid-for ad on the Guardian news website for Diesel clothing, seen on 26 March 2025, featured an image of the model, Katie Price, wearing a bikini and holding a handbag in front of her chest. Text underneath the image stated, Diesel Spring Summer 2025.

The ASA received 13 complaints.

1. Some complainants, who believed the ad objectified and sexualised women, challenged whether it was offensive, harmful and irresponsible.

2. Some complainants, who believed the model appeared to be unhealthily thin, challenged whether the ad was irresponsible.

Diesel said the ad was part of a brand campaign called The Houseguests, which was designed to challenge stereotypes and support diversity and inclusion in the fashion industry, by reflecting a wide range of body types. They regretted that this context was not clear to the complainants. They believed the ad was compliant with the CAP Code, but nevertheless they had removed the ad from the Guardian website. They said the ad had been published in over 100 countries worldwide and they had not been notified of any other complaints.

2. Diesel said although Ms Price was slender, she had excellent muscle tone and was not unhealthily underweight. They said, in the ad Ms Price's head was in proportion with her body, her collar bones were not overly pronounced and her limbs, although slender, were clearly covered with healthy muscle and were proportional to her size. They believed the image was not therefore irresponsible.

ASA Assessment 1. Upheld

The ASA acknowledged Diesel's comments regarding the wider advertising campaign, but considered the ad in isolation, as it was likely that at least some people seeing the ad would not have seen any of the other ads or videos that were part of the campaign.

The model featured in the ad was Katie Price, a well-known public figure. She was shown holding a Diesel handbag in front of her chest, prominently in the foreground of the image, and was wearing one of Diesel's bikinis. We understood that the products featured were part of Diesel's Spring Summer 2025 collection. She appeared to be standing in front of a portable sunbed, which would have been apparent to some people seeing the ad. However, the background of the image showed Ms Price was inside a house, rather than a location which would be more immediately associated with wearing a bikini, such as a beach or poolside.

The bikini only partially covered Ms Price's breasts and we considered the positioning of the handbag, in front of her stomach with the handle framing her chest, drew viewers' attention to, and emphasised, that part of her body. While we acknowledged that Ms Price was shown in a confident and self-assured pose and in control, we considered that because of the positioning of the handbag, which had the effect of emphasising and drawing attention to her breasts, the ad sexualised her in a way that objectified her. We therefore considered the ad was likely to cause serious offence, was irresponsible and breached the Code.

ASA Assessment 2. Not upheld

We acknowledged that Ms Price was slim and considered whether the ad depicted her in such a way as to make her appear unhealthily thin.

We considered that her arms, whilst slender, did have some muscle tone and were in proportion to the rest of her body. Her hair had been styled away from her face in a beehive style, in such a way as to elongate her face and her head was slightly tilted downwards which added to that effect, but we did not consider she appeared gaunt. None of her bones were obviously protruding. There was a gap between her thighs but that appeared, at least in part, due to her pose with one leg stepped forward. Only the tops of her thighs were visible in the ad, and we considered they did not appear to be unduly slender and appeared to be in proportion to the rest of her body. We therefore considered that the ad did not depict Ms Price in such a way as to make her appear unhealthily thin and concluded that it was not irresponsible on that basis.

The ad must not appear again in the form complained of. We told Diesel SpA t/a Diesel to ensure their future ads were socially responsible and did not cause serious or widespread offence.

A Game in the Woods is a 2024 US horror by Mike McCutchen
Starring Eleanor Newman, Emily Skeen and John P. Crowley

The BBFC briefly reported dialogue cuts to this film but this was an erroneous database entry and the film is actually uncut and BBFC 18 rated. The video is uncut and MPA Unrated in the US.

Summary Notes

After a Texas rancher dies, his granddaughter and her girlfriend discover masked hunters at his ranch competing in a twisted game of life and death. Will the beauties and their already rocky romance survive the brutal carnage?

Versions

uncut run: 80:14s pal: 77:01s

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for: 2025 Jinga Films Ltd R1 DVD at US Amazon #ad UK: BBFC 18 rated for strong gory violence, brief sexual violence for strong gory violence, brief sexual violence after BBFC cuts: 2025 Jinga Films VoD (rated 09/06/2025)