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The BBC and the British Museum could be in a tight spot if the legal system puts two and two together over a Roman cup which also puts two and two together... in a naked, underage sort of way. A sharp-eyed Reg reader (who may now need locking up) draws to our attention the BBC’s online publicity for a Radio 4 series entitled …

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  1. King Jack
    WTF?

    @ Kevin Elliot

    There are laws governing computer games. Violent games unsuitable for children carry an Adult or Teen rating. Parents who decide to allow their offspring access to these are breaking the law. Same with movies.

    1. kevin elliott

      How?

      Just tell me how, as a parent, I can keep reasonable control over what my kids get exposed to at other kids houses? On hand held games at school?

      And what if the generally applicable standards of age restrictions are not suitable for my kids, precisely because of the content of the games and what it does to them.

      And I remember, as a teenager, doing things I wasn't allowed to.... Pubs, X movies.... All behind my parents backs.... Guess you did/are doing the same. Only things in those days were nowhere near as bad. Or as violent.

      And my kids are doing the same, but with really bad effects, precisely because of those violent games, that are legal fo their age, even though I won't have them in the house. I guess you'll learn first hand, one day. .

  2. david 12 Silver badge

    Picture is gone now

    "Featured prominently on the page publicising this series is a picture of the Warren Cup" Not any more (unless that site only works with new browsers)

    1. Chris Miller

      Still there

      It's a daily series, so they've moved on to less 'controversial' items, you've just got to work back to Monday's - see here (possibly NSFW):

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfgxd

      for the offending pic. Oh dear, I suppose I'll have to go down to the local nick and turn myself in, now ...

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Write to your MP

    Write to your Member of Parliament!

    http://www.writetothem.com/

    Point out the inconsistencies in the law, and remind them that if they have any nude baby photos, then the law considers them a pedophile. Remember that newsreader Julia Somerville was arrested for having innocent family photos, see:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/julia-somerville-defends-innocent-family-photos-1538516.html

  4. Bernard M. Orwell

    @king Jack

    The PEGI rating system on games is purely voluntary and is not legally enforced and is therefore different to the system used for film.

  5. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

    Remember Jonathan King

    Or what was alleged about Michael Jackson. But he's dead so no one seems to mind now.

  6. Semaj
    Big Brother

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    Notice that this hasn't been covered by the mainstream press. They really hate the fact that people have been drawing dirty things for as long as there's been something to draw on (loads of cave paintings depict bestiality).

    The media really needs to point out that they are now being prevented from showing pieces of classical "art" because it really is no different from modern porn and therefore the whole thing is so stupid.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Pathetic....

    It's a historical artifact and to attempts to apply "modern attitudes" is ridiculous. In 500 years time, our current attitudes will be placed under the same spotlight and will be rightly ridiculed.

    I wonder what tv producers in the US would make of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece

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