Post: fails OPA test?
fails OPA test? →
Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 13:12 GMT
In Girls Aloud obscenity trial delayed
as i remember commenting elsewhere back in October when this all started, apart from the crime of being a shockingly bad writer there should be no case to answer here.
according to the OPA
"For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or (where the article comprises two or more distinct items) the effect of any one of its items is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it."
and if you consider the location of this story, i mean not just the website it was on and all the warnings that website has. but actually the fact that in order to find this story on that website you would have to put the full exact title (including brackets) into the search otherwise you wouldnt find it. (yes back in October i did that. it didnt show up at all on the first 20 pages of google (yes i really did look through that far), and even a basic search on that website didnt turn it up. you had to put in the full title to find it)
so you would either have to be a regular visitor to that site and see it on a regular updates page, or seriously be looking for this type of story; in either such case it really is not likely to deprave and corrupt you if you did read it, which is the test necessary for the OPA.
case dismissed. next.
