Erm, what?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5106694.stm
We truly are living in a strange world if a fictional tale of two perfectly legal 16-year-olds can cause a fuss.
And Kidscape should mind its own business and concentrate on the real problem. Especially when on their site, they say:
"Kidscape works with children and young people under the age of 16, their parents/carers, and those who work with them."
Why don't people concentrate on the real issues about paedophilia, instead of wasting their time on this kind of nonsense?
About this entry
- By John Hoare
- Posted on Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 6:12 pm
- Categorised in Net
- Tagged with pete townshend
- 2 comments
The only reason they've made a deal out of this is because it's Pete Townshend, Who's on the sex offender's register.
By performingmonkey
June 22, 2006 @ 8:42 pm
reply / #
Absolutely ridiculous. ABSOLUTELY.
Townshend's a gifted author. He may be using the web for his creative outlet rather than the printing press, but that shouldn't mean anything. We've been through this a hundred times before with Ulysses, with Lolita, with many other examples. We're finally at a place where fiction can exist in and of itself with a respectable body of legislature to back it up. Yet just because something is on the internet rather than bound traditionally, it's fair game?
Absurd.
By Philip J Reed, VSc
June 22, 2006 @ 10:20 pm
reply / #